[mou] RE: [mnbird] Mystery Egg

[Holly Peirson]

Based on the Field Guide to Bird Nests, it's not a merganser, all of whose
eggs are variations of off-white with light flecks. Crow eggs are greenish
with brown speckles, but smaller and this egg is the wrong shape. I could
not locate a possibility in my book, but it doesn't show all species.

Holly Peirson
Forest Lake area



-----Original Message-----
From: mnbird-admin@lists.mnbird.net [mailto:mnbird-admin@lists.mnbird.net]On
Behalf Of Sharon Stiteler
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:57 AM
To: mou-net; Mnbird
Subject: [mnbird] Mystery Egg

One of my job perks are the bird mysteries people bring to the store, and I
now have an egg mystery.  One of my customers said that he found a bright
blue chicken sized egg in his wood duck box this fall, we couldn't figure
out what he was talking about and asked him to bring in the egg.  He brought
in two, both found in the box, one looks like a wood duck egg and the other
is kind of a dull greenish blue with light brown specks--and is larger.  He
thought maybe her remembered the color wrong, but I  know egg color can
fade.  I've posted photos of the eggs at http://www.birdchick.com/blog.html


If anyone has any idea what the egg is, can you please email.  My guess is
merganser but would love any expert opinion on this.

Thanks!

--
Sharon Stiteler
Minneapolis, MN
www.birdchick.com


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