Eudocimus albus, Ibis egg
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Description:
One of three freshly laid American white ibis eggs that were identified by the birds (see CBE2640 - CBE2642). The nest was "of sticks, reed stems and salt water cedar leaves and placed in salt water cedar tree about 9 ft. from ground. In colony of ibises, herons and egrets on island in Cooper River," (Cutts slip).
Original set mark: 58.128 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: CBE2642
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