Common Guillemot / Common Murre skull (Uria aalge) two parietals (both left) and

two parietals (both left) and a sphenoid

The whole model is mounted on a black-painted wooden base with the Russian label

This is a lovely skull of the Manx shearwater Manx shearwater skull Puffinus puffinus

particularly in the top jaw whilst some of the remaining teeth were in poor condition

This was a very old male dog and as you can see from the photographs

Common Guillemot / Common Murre skull (Uria aalge) two parietals (both left) andThis is a skull of the common guillemot, also known as the common murre Uria aalge. This species is a large member of the Auk family with circumpolar distribution of the sub species in the Northern waters. They breed in huge colonies with a density of up to 20 pairs on one square metre of rock. They are expert divers with diving depths of 180m being recorded in search of food. This specimen was from a dead bird washed up on the shore. It is a very