Eudocimus albus, Ibis egg
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Description:
One of three American white ibis eggs that has started incubation when collected and identified by the birds present (see CBE2663 - CBE2665). The nest was "of sticks and salt water cedar leaves and placed on limb of salt water cedar tree about 5 ft. from ground. In large colony of the species, herons and egrets," (Cutts slip).
Original Set Mark: 61.25 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: CBE2664
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