Eudocimus albus, Ibis egg
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Description:
One of four American white ibis eggs collected when incubation was advanced and were identified by the birds present (see CBE2651 - CBE2654). The nest was "of sticks, reed stems, and salt water cedar leaves and placed in salt water cedar tree about 8 ft. from the ground. In colony of herons, egrets and ibises," (Cutts slip).
Original Set Mark: 58.24 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: CBE2654
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