Leucophaeus atricilla, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three laughing gull eggs (Leucophaeus atricilla atricilla) collected from Bird [Key] Island, Stono Inlet. Cutts' slip noted that the nest was comprised of "reed stems and placed on ground on side of sand dune in rank grass on sand bar which is used as nesting site by royal, gull-billed and Cabot's terns, oystercatchers and black skimmers" (see CBE1944 - CBE1946). The eggs were collected fresh during incubation and were idetified by the birds nearby.
Synonym: Larus atricilla Linnaeus, 1758
Original set mark: 58.103, 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: Leucophaeus
- Species: Leucophaeus atricilla
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1946
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