Gelochelidon nilotica, Tern egg
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Description:
One of four gull-billed tern eggs (Gelochelidon nilotica aranea) collected from Deveaux Bank near Rockville. Cutts' slip described the nest as "a few reed stems and placed in slight indenture in sand just above high water mark on large sand bar at mouth of the North Edisto River, in colony of terns and black skimmers." The eggs had been freshly laid at the time of collection and identification was confirmed by observing the nearby birds (see CBE1995 - CBE1998).
Original set mark: 63.88, Cutts Collection
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.
- Site Number: NH20
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Gelochelidon
- Species: Gelochelidon nilotica
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1995
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