Hoploxypterus cayanus
- 36.8 × 26.4 mm (estimated)
- Speculative: we haven't found a documented description of this egg yet, so we estimated its colours and markings and its size from related birds.
Breeds in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela
Buff, heavily spotted with blackish brown (estimated).
Sources of information
- Size
- Estimated, no measurements found: the median length and width of measured eggs of the same family: Anarhynchus alticola, Anarhynchus collaris, Anarhynchus falklandicus, Anarhynchus mongolus, Anarhynchus montanus ….
- Description
- Ihering 1900 (Revista do Museu Paulista 4).
- 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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