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Illustration of a Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) egg, 36.15 × 26 mm
Illustration © 2026 Lincoln Savi, Savi Made. Free to use with credit.

Patagioenas cayennensis

  • 36.15 × 26 mm
  • Clutch: 1–2 eggs
Breeds in Mexico, Central America (6 countries), Trinidad and Tobago and South America (12 countries)
show all 20Mexico: Mexico
Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
The Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

White with little gloss; subelliptical to long subelliptical.

Sources of information

Size
Average of 12 eggs: Hellebrekers, W.Ph.J. 1942. Revision of the Penard oölogical collection from Surinam. Zoologische Mededelingen 24: 240-275.
Agrees with: Wetmore, A. 1968. The birds of the Republic of Panamá. Part 2. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 150(2), p. 9.
Description
Wetmore 1968, The Birds of the Republic of Panama, pt 2 (Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 150), p. 234; supporting: Hellebrekers 1942, Zool. Meded. 24 (as Columba rufina).
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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