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Egg identification

To: "Whittaker, Mark" <>
Subject: Egg identification
From: "Philip A. Veerman" <>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:29:28 +1100
From that note, most likely suspects are Common Starling or Common Myna.
 
Philip
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From: Whittaker, Mark <>
To: 'K,K&E Lindsay' <>; Birding Aus <>
Date: Sunday, 7 December 2003 22:49
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Egg identification

Two beautiful sky blue eggs have recently fallen into my Sydney suburban
backyard - presumably from the lemon scented gum almost overhead. One was
broken, the other (which arrived a few days later) intact. It was exactly
30mm long.
I'm in Botany, where we mostly just have the usual suburban backyard mix of
noisy miners, starlings, Indian Mynas, spotted turtle doves, plus a good few
New Holland honeyeaters although heaven help them if their eggs are as big
as this. Some black-faced cuckoo shrikes have also been floating around
recently.
I was wondering if anybody had an idea what species the eggs may belong to.
Cheers
Mark Whittaker

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