Plegadis falcinellus, Ibis egg
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Description:
One of three glossy ibis eggs that were freshly incubated and identified by the birds present when collected (see CBE2682 - CBE2684). The nest was "large and deeper than usual, made of reed stems and lined with salt water cedar leaves and placed in salt water cedar tree about 6 ft. from the ground. In colony of herons, egrets, and ibises on island in Cooper River," (Cutts sip).
Synonym: Plegadis falcinellus falcinellus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Original Set Mark: 59.49 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: CBE2683
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