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Illustration of a Black-crowned Tityra (Tityra inquisitor) egg, 26.2 × 18.9 mm
Illustration © 2026 Lincoln Savi, Savi Made. Free to use with credit.

Tityra inquisitor

  • 26.2 × 18.9 mm
  • Speculative: we haven't found a documented description of this egg yet, so we estimated its colours and markings from related birds.
  • Clutch: 3 eggs
Breeds in Mexico, Central America (6 countries) and South America (11 countries)
show all 18Mexico: Mexico
Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

No documented description found yet; presumed dark buff or café-au-lait, heavily marbled with brown at the larger end with a few black spots, as in Masked Tityra.

Sources of information

Size
Average of 2 eggs: de la Peña, M. R. 2025. Aves Argentinas: descripción, comportamiento, reproducción y distribución. Comunicaciones del Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales "Florentino Ameghino" (Nueva Serie). Santa Fe., tomo 8, p. 324.
Description
Agrees with: Skutch 1969 (eggs never seen; no published description), p. 14; Masked Tityra eggs: Skutch, A. F. 1969. Life histories of Central American birds III. Pacific Coast Avifauna 35., p. 25.
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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