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Illustration of a Lineated Woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus) egg, 29.9 × 21.69 mm
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Dryocopus lineatus

  • 29.9 × 21.69 mm
  • Clutch: 2–4 eggs
Breeds in Mexico, Central America (7 countries), Trinidad and Tobago and South America (11 countries)
show all 20Mexico: Mexico
Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
The Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Pure white, close-grained and highly glossy, pointed oval; unmarked.

Sources of information

Size
Average of 7 eggs: Skutch, A. F. 1969. Life histories of Central American birds III. Pacific Coast Avifauna 35., p. 433.
Agrees with: Belcher & Smooker, quoted in Wetmore, A. 1968. The birds of the Republic of Panamá, part 2. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 150(2)., p. 550.
Description
Wetmore, A. 1968. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 2. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 150(2). [quoting Belcher & Smooker 1936], approx. p. 550 (scan leaf 562).
Agrees with: Malekan, I. S. 2011. Lineated Woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus), version 1.0. Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, ed.). Cornell Lab of Ornithology. [clutch 2-4, 2-3 in Trinidad].
Clutch
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds.
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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