What are tab-icons called and how can I extract this one in order to do a reverse image search?

Sorry if this is not fully on-topic, I am not sure where the best place to post this is.

I noticed that these two seemingly unrelated websites have seemingly identical "icons" on their tabs in my browser.

1. What is the proper name for these "icons" in developer-speak?
2. Besides a screen shot, how can I extract these "icons" from the web page in order to do some kind of reverse image search on it?

URLs viewed in these two tabs (Chrome Incognito, MacOS)

• Left: POC optical fiber manufacturing module arrives at International Space Station
• Right: SfePy: Notes on Multi-platform Python Distributions

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They're called favicon.ico or "shortcut icon", but your browser likely has a default when the website doesn't have a favicon in the root. If you inspect the section of this page, it'll show "shortcut icon" as

For the 2 websites you linked, if there's no favicon.ico in the website root, I believe you're going to be stuck with those default icons.

For more information on favicons, you can refer to this wikipedia page.

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