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Illustration of a Ruddy Quail-Dove (Geotrygon montana) egg, 27.6 × 20.2 mm
Illustration © 2026 Lincoln Savi, Savi Made. Free to use with credit.

Geotrygon montana

  • 27.6 × 20.2 mm
  • Clutch: 2 eggs
Breeds in Mexico, Central America (7 countries), the Caribbean and South America (11 countries)
show all 21Mexico: Mexico
Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
The Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean islands
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Cream-buff to pale buff, unmarked, slightly granular, little gloss.

Sources of information

Size
Average of 10 eggs: Skutch, A.F. 1949. Life history of the Ruddy Quail-Dove. Condor 51: 3-19, p. 5.
Agrees with: Hellebrekers, W.Ph.J. 1942. Revision of the Penard oölogical collection from Surinam. Zoologische Mededelingen 24: 240-275.
Description
Hauber et al. 2014, The Book of Eggs (FMNH 20793), p. 318; supporting: Wetmore 1968, The Birds of the Republic of Panama, pt 2 (Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 150); supporting: Skutch 1949.
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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