Plegadis falcinellus, Ibis egg
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Description:
One of four glossy ibis eggs that were freshly incubated and identified by the birds present when collected (see CBE2688 - CBE2691). The nest was "of stick and reed stems and lined with salt water cedar leaves and placed in salt water tree about 5 ft. from the ground. In large colony of ibises, egrets and herons on island in Cooper River," (Cutts sip).
Synonym: Plegadis falcinellus falcinellus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Original Set Mark: 64.30 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: CBE2689
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