Hello all,
I'm sorting through my photographs from the last 12 months and have been
baffled by some photos that I took of a gibberbird nest that had 2 eggs
back on the 5th August at Davenport Downs in south-west Qld.
The strange thing is that the 2 eggs in the nest were quite different in
colour and pattern to such an extent that I at first assumed that there was
a cuckoo egg in the nest. After closer re-evaluation I now think that there
wasn't a cuckoo egg in the nest. One egg was noticeably pinker in colour,
with denser markings than the other.
Normally I'd look up venerated egg references like North or Campbell with a
problem like this but the Gibberbird wasn't described until AFTER these
volumes were published (early 1900's).
Now, this egg variation within a clutch may be normal for Gibberbirds, I'm
no expert on them. I'd love to hear from anyone who knows about Gibberbird
eggs or for that matter whether it is normal to have a lot of variation
within a clutch of eggs.
Cheers
Mick
Mick Todd
Toronto, NSW, Australia
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