Hydrobates furcatus
- 33.9 × 25.7 mm
Breeds in Canada, United States
Dull white, often with blunt end encircled by ring of dark purplish-red spots.
Sources of information
- Size
- Average of 40 eggs: Bent, Life Histories of North American Petrels and Pelicans and Their Allies (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 121, 1922), p. 134.
- Description
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, Life History.
Drawing checked against a photo: Bird Eggs of Canada photo (Royal Alberta Museum). - Shape
- Drawn from the length and width, with the taper estimated from the typical eggs of its group (how these eggs are drawn).
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