Michael Brown writes:

> I don't know yet where the egg was found, but it is about an inch
and a
> half in length (possibly longer, I don't have it in front of me),
> off-white, with dark gray or black spots covering a great deal of
the
> egg. Apparently the parents were never seen. Any ideas?


I would suggest Killdeer although the size would be more like an inch
and a quarter. Any eggs that don't hatch within a relatively short
period of the others will be abandoned as the chicks are precocial
and the mom needs to take them on the road right away. It could be
that this egg was not viable and abandoned.

Ed Schulz
Everett, WA
email: eschulz at gte.net
phone: 425-259-6877

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> From: Michael Brown <borealis at borealis.seanet.com>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Egg ID
> Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 10:05 AM
>
> A parent at our school brought in an unhatched egg. She believes
the
> other eggs were hatched and the young already fledged. This seems
> strange to me, but not impossible.
>
> I don't know yet where the egg was found, but it is about an inch
and a
> half in length (possibly longer, I don't have it in front of me),
> off-white, with dark gray or black spots covering a great deal of
the
> egg. Apparently the parents were never seen. Any ideas?
>
> By the way, for those concerned, I frequently inform the people at
our
> school of the various laws governing such things as possession of
wild
> bird eggs. This is out of my control!
>
>
> --
> Michael Brown
> Puyallup, WA
> borealis at borealis.seanet.com