Gelochelidon nilotica, Tern egg

Description:

One of three Gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica aranea) eggs (CBE2027-CBE2029) collected by Ernest Cutts from Deveaux Bank off of Seabrook Beach near Rockville, South Carolina in June 1957. Cutts described the nest as made of "a few reed stems and grasses and placed in slight indenture in sand on ridge of royal tern colony" and "sand ridge on edge of grassy area on large sand bar at mouth of North Edisto River." Incubation of the eggs had begun by the time of collection and identification was confirmed by observing the nearby birds.

Original set mark: 63.91, Cutts collection

• Site: SC; Charleston Co.
• Site Number: NH20
• Era: Cenozoic
• Period: Neogene
• Epoch: Holocene
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Aves
• Order: Charadriiformes
• Family: Laridae
• Genus: Gelochelidon
• Species: Gelochelidon nilotica

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• Collection: Ornithology Collection
• Object Name: Marine Birds
• Object Id: CBE2027

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