Anous minutus
- 44.5 × 31.1 mm
- Clutch: 1 egg
Breeds in Costa Rica, Honduras, Aruba, Caribbean islands, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela
Pale reddish-buff, with a few rusty and dark maroon-brown spots and small blotches, mostly at the blunt end.
Sources of information
- Size
- Average of 36 eggs: Schönwetter, M. 1960–1992. Handbuch der Oologie (ed. W. Meise), Lieferung 8. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin., p. 456.
- Description
- Hauber et al. 2014, The Book of Eggs, p. 174.
- 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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