Birkhead et al. 2020: New insights from old eggs – the shape and thickness of Great Auk Pinguinus impennis eggs

dataset

posted on 2020-03-03, 09:36 authored by Jamie Thompson, Timothy BirkheadTimothy Birkhead, Duncan Jackson, Marie AttardMarie Attard, Douglas G. D. Russell, Amin Garbout

Here, we make available the raw dataset (including shape indices and egg size measurements) used to statistically analyse and compare egg shape of the extinct Great Auk and its closely related sister species: Common Guillemot, Brünnich's Guillemot and Razorbill.

The dataset was used in Birkhead et al.'s (2020) Ibis manuscript intitled: New insights from old eggs – the shape and thickness of Great Auk Pinguinus impennis eggs (https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12820).

Funding

The Leverhulme Trust

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The data can be shared openly

Data description

The file formats are open or commonly used

Methodology, headings and units

There is a readme.txt file describing the methodology, headings and units

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Keywords

Egg shape birds Alcidae Auks Breeding habitats incubation behaviour murre Evolutionary Biology

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0