Eggs

Nothoprocta pentlandii

• 46.2 × 33.7 mm
• Clutch: 6–15 eggs

Unmarked, very glossy, light chocolate with a pinkish-violet tint.

Sources of information

Size

Salvador, S.A. & Narosky, S. 1984. Notas sobre nidificación de aves andinas en la Argentina. El Hornero 12(3): 184–188, pp. 184–188.

Description

Salvador, S.A. & Narosky, S. 1984. Notas sobre nidificación de aves andinas en la Argentina. El Hornero 12(3): 184–188, pp. 184–188; support: Reed, C.S. 1919. Breves notas acerca de nidos y huevos de algunas aves de la cordillera de Mendoza. El Hornero 1; support: Neotropical Birds (historic account), Andean Tinamou, Breeding.
Agrees with: Li, Chen & Wang 2022, Tinamou egg color displacement at eco-geographical and song space overlap (bioRxiv 10.1101/2022.09.27.509793), Fig. 1 egg colours from nest photos (Schläpfer 2017).
Drawing checked against a photo: de la Peña 2025, Aves Argentinas tomo 1, p. 54.

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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