Eggs gallery
All birds lay eggs. These exhibit a great diversity of shape, colour and patterns. Despite their fragility, the calcium carbonate shells provide protection and a self-enclosed environment for the developing chicks.
Ratites
Fowl-like Birds
Waterfowl
Grebes and Penguins
Petrels, Albatrosses and Allies
Pelicans, Cormorants and Allies
Herons, Storks and Allies
Diurnal Birds of Prey
Rails, Cranes and Allies
Shorebirds and Allies
Gulls, Terns and Skuas
Pigeons
Cockatoos, Parrots and Lorikeets
Cuckoos
Owls, Nightjars and Swifts
Kingfishers, Rollers and Bee-eaters
Pittas, Lyrebirds and Treecreepers
Fairy-wrens
Pardalotes, Gerygones, Scrubwrens, Thornbills
Honeyeaters
Australasian Robins, Babblers and Allies
Sittellas, Whistlers and Shrike-thrushes
Monarch Flycatchers and Allies
Cuckoo-shrikes, Woodswallows, Magpies and Allies
Ravens, Bowerbirds and Allies
Larks, Pipits and Finches
Sunbirds, Swallows and Bulbuls
Old World Warblers and White-eyes
Thrushes and Starlings
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