Mycteria americana, Stork egg
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Description:
One of three American wood stork eggs collected from Whitewater Bay when they were freshly laid (see CBE2728 - CBE2730). The nest was "a platform of sticks, 10 ft. up in mangrove," (Ellis slip).
Original Set Mark: 13 Ellis Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: FL; Monroe Co.
- Site Number: NH57I
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Ciconiiformes
- Family: Ciconiidae
- Genus: Mycteria
- Species: Mycteria americana
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marsh Birds
- Object Id: CBE2730
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