John Bates, curator of birds FieldMuseum shared a dozen of his favorites.
A look inside the Field Museum’s collection of eggs, which numbers in the tens of thousands, reveals an amazing range: from some the size of jellybeans, to others as large as footballs, some are glossy, some are speckled, and some are even shaped more like pears than eggs.1. Common murreCommon murres are found on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America and their eggs are notable for multiple reasons.
The colors, squiggles and patterns are placed on the egg toward the very end, in a process that’s still not well understood.So where are the magenta and chartreuse eggs? Well, nature’s palette is actually fairly limited, according to the. Birds only use two pigments: one that produces reddish-brown colors — as seen in these pinkish cactus wren eggs — and one that produces blues and greens.
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