Podilymbus podiceps, Grebe egg

Description:

One of six pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps podiceps, Linnaeus 1758) eggs collected from Magnolia Gardens in Charleston County, South Carolina (see CBE1764-CBE1769). Collector Ernest Cutts noted incubation had begun at time of collection and the nest was composed "of decaying reeds and grasses achored to reed stems in duck pond." Cutts also noted the pond was "...a new one and this is [the] first year it has had water in it."

Original set mark: 59.122, Cutts collection