Rostrhamus sociabilis, Kite egg
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Description:
One of three everglade kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus) eggs collected near Lake Okeechobee, Florida by Alexander Sprunt, Jr. (see CBE867 - CBE869). The eggs had been slightly incubated before they were collected in May 1940. Sprunt noted the nest was made "of grasses and trash about 3 feet up over water in a clump of cane. A boat trail had been cut by this nest within 2 feet by fishermen, and the female deserted the eggs. They were stone cold for 5 days, then taken."
Original set mark: LO/1, Sprunt collection.
- Site: FL; Lake Okeechobee
- Site Number: NH57V
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Accipitriformes
- Family: Accipitridae
- Genus: Rostrhamus
- Species: Rostrhamus sociabilis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Birds of Prey
- Object Id: CBE869
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