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Illustration of a Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi) egg, 31 × 23.8 mm
Illustration © 2026 Lincoln Savi, Savi Made. Free to use with credit.

Neomorphus geoffroyi

  • 31 × 23.8 mm (estimated)
  • Speculative: we haven't found documented measurements of this egg yet, so we estimated its size from related birds.
Breeds in Central America (4 countries) and South America (5 countries)
show all 9Central America: Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Yellowish white, unmarked.

Sources of information

Size
Estimated, no measurements found: the median length and width of measured eggs of the same family: Coccycua cinerea, Coccycua minuta, Coccyzus americanus, Coccyzus erythropthalmus, Coccyzus euleri ….
Description
Roth, P. 1981. A nest of the Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi). Condor 83(4): 388.
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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