Eudocimus albus, Ibis egg
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Description:
One of three American white ibis eggs in which incubation had just started when collected (see CBE2643 - CBE2645). The nest was "of sticks and reeds and lined with salt water cedar leaves and placed in salt water cedar tree about 5 ft. from ground in large colony. Large colony of this species and herons and egrets on island in Cooper River. This is a very unusual set, with small dots and few markings in contrast with usual heavy markings on most eggs of this ibis," (Cutts slip).
Original Set Mark: 64.23 Cutts Collection
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Drum Island
- Site Number: NH20B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Pelecaniformes
- Family: Threskiornithidae
- Genus: Eudocimus
- Species: Eudocimus albus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marsh Birds
- Object Id: CBE2645
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