Archilochus alexandri, Hummingbird egg
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Description:
One of two (both pictured, CBE4236-CBE4237) black-chinned hummingbird eggs collected in the camp 1 mile [1.61km] north of Santa Elena Canyon.
- Site: TX; Brewster Co.; Big Bend Park
- Site Number: NH69E
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Apodiformes
- Family: Trochilidae
- Genus: Archilochus
- Species: Archilochus alexandri
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Hummingbirds
- Object Id: CBE4237
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