Arenaria melanocephala
- 40.9 × 28.8 mm
Breeds in United States
Olive with pale brownish speckling.
Sources of information
- Size
- Average of 130 eggs: Bent, Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 2 (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 146, 1929), p. 300.
- Description
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: Black Turnstone, Life History.
Drawing checked against a photo: Flickr photo by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Alaska. - 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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