Ixobrychus exilis, Heron egg
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Description:
One of three fresh incubated eastern least bittern eggs (Ixobrychus exilis exilis) collected from the same nest and positivly identified (see CBE11180 - CBE11182). The nest was the "usual nest of reeds placed about 4 ft. from the water in high cat tails. (Baker slip)"
Original set mark: 63.8 Baker Coll.
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.; Magnolia Gardens
- Site Number: NH20Ya
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Pelecaniformes
- Family: Ardeidae
- Genus: Ixobrychus
- Species: Ixobrychus exilis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE11180
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