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Illustration of a Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) egg, 19.1 × 13.5 mm
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Cyanerpes cyaneus

  • 19.1 × 13.5 mm
  • Clutch: 2 eggs
Breeds in Mexico, Central America (7 countries), the Caribbean and South America (9 countries)
show all 19Mexico: Mexico
Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
The Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean islands
South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

White, little gloss, speckled with bright brown, heavily in a wreath about the large end (Central American carneipes).

Sources of information

Size
Skutch, A. F. 1954. Life histories of Central American birds. Pacific Coast Avifauna 31., p. 395.
Agrees with: Wetmore, A., R. F. Pasquier & S. L. Olson 1984. The birds of the Republic of Panamá, part 4. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 150(4)., p. 515; Hellebrekers, W. P. J. 1942. Revision of the Penard oölogical collection from Surinam. Zoologische Mededelingen 24: 240–275., p. 272.
Description
Skutch, A. F. 1954. Life Histories of Central American Birds. Pacific Coast Avifauna 31.
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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