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Can You Help I.D. This (Bird) Egg?
Karen Gentile writes:
Is there someone who could possibly identify a bird’s egg that my daughter happened upon in her yard in Brick Towmship on Thursday night?
It is rather large, mulch brown colored streaked, and laying in a scrape in her mulched garden. There is only one egg.
'My daughter said the mulch had been scooped and the whole egg was in the 'hole' as if placed there (or laid).
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I thought it might be a Killdeer egg at first. Also thought t could be a cowbird egg the real mom discarded… Hard to tell but I think an expert may be on the case…
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It looks like it might be a killdeer egg, although there are usually multiple eggs in a clutch. It does look like the kind of place a killdeer would lay eggs. Maybe the dam got frightened away after laying the one egg.
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Jim Wright
I thought it might be a Killdeer egg at first. Also thought t could be a cowbird egg the real mom discarded… Hard to tell but I think an expert may be on the case…
Pat W
It looks like it might be a killdeer egg, although there are usually multiple eggs in a clutch. It does look like the kind of place a killdeer would lay eggs. Maybe the dam got frightened away after laying the one egg.