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Illustration of a White-winged Tanager (Piranga leucoptera) egg, 24 × 17.5 mm
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Piranga leucoptera

  • 24 × 17.5 mm
  • Speculative: we haven't found a documented description of this egg yet, so we estimated its colours and markings from related birds.
Breeds in Mexico, Central America (7 countries) and South America (7 countries)
show all 15Mexico: Mexico
Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela

Pale blue to pale greenish blue, speckled with brown and grey, heaviest toward the large end (estimated from other Piranga tanagers).

Sources of information

Size
Average of 2 eggs: Schönwetter, M. 1960–1992. Handbuch der Oologie (ed. W. Meise), Lieferung 29–36. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin., p. 312.
Description
No egg description found (Wikipedia: 'No other information about the species' breeding phenology has been published'; only a nest under construction described). Look based on congeners Summer, Western and Hepatic Tanagers.
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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