Estrilda astrild
- 13.86 × 10.33 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 Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean islands, Brazil, Uruguay
Plain white (as other estrildid finches).
Sources of information
- Size
- Average of 18 eggs: Stoddard, M. C., et al. 2017. Avian egg shape: form, function, and evolution. Science 356: 1249-1254 (Data S1, MVZ egg collection).
- Description
- Not recorded yet.
- 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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