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Illustration of a Maroon-tailed Parakeet (Pyrrhura melanura) egg, 25.4 × 19.6 mm
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Pyrrhura melanura

  • 25.4 × 19.6 mm (estimated)
  • Its colour follows its family (the eggs of all its relatives are alike); we haven't found a description of this species' own egg yet. Speculative: we haven't found documented measurements of this egg yet, so we estimated its size from related birds.
Breeds in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela

Plain white, as in all parrot eggs (we haven't found a description of this species' own egg yet).

Sources of information

Size
Estimated, no measurements found: the median length and width of measured eggs of the same genus: Pyrrhura devillei, Pyrrhura frontalis, Pyrrhura hoematotis, Pyrrhura molinae, Pyrrhura picta ….
Description
Oates, E. W. & S. G. Reid 1903. Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum, vol. 3. London.
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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