Plegadis falcinellus, Heron egg
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Description:
One of three glossy ibis eggs in which incubation had started and were identified by the birds present when collected (see CBE2721 - CBE2723). The nest was "of sticks, canes and salt water cedar leaves and placed in salt water cedar tree about 7 ft. from the ground. In large colony of herons, egrets and ibises on island in harbor," (Cutts sip).
Synonym: Plegadis falcinellus falcinellus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Original Set Mark: 62.11 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: Plegadis
- Species: Plegadis falcinellus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marsh Birds
- Object Id: CBE2722
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