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Illustration of a Striated Heron (Butorides striata) egg, 37.6 × 27.8 mm
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Butorides striata

  • 37.6 × 27.8 mm
  • Clutch: 1–5 eggs
Breeds in Panama, the Caribbean and South America (12 countries)
show all 15Central America: Panama
The Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean islands
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

Pale green-blue, unmarked, dulling during incubation.

Sources of information

Size
Average of 50 eggs: Hellebrekers, W. P. J. 1942. Revision of the Penard oölogical collection from Surinam. Zoologische Mededelingen 24: 240–275., p. 243.
Description
IUCN-SSC Heron Specialist Group, Herons of the World: Striated Heron; related: Hellebrekers 1942, Revision of the Penard oölogical collection from Surinam (Zool. Meded. 24).
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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