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Illustration of a Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans) egg, 27.8 × 21.7 mm
Illustration © 2026 Lincoln Savi, Savi Made. Free to use with credit.

Celeus elegans

  • 27.8 × 21.7 mm
Breeds in Trinidad and Tobago and South America (9 countries)
show all 10The Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago
South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Plain white, smooth and very glossy.

Sources of information

Size
Average of 21 eggs: Schönwetter, M. 1960–1992. Handbuch der Oologie (ed. W. Meise), Lieferung 12. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin., p. 752.
Description
Not recorded yet.
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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