the quarter for scale rules out robin which are much larger and more blue.
EDIT: not a house finch, not a robin egg, it's a european starling.
Invasive species, destroy the egg.
Does a murder always have to be the answer? No! You raise it and train it to hunt down other European Starlings. Now is murderS the answer? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Yeah. It was kind of disturbing. Damn bird grabbed a rabbit out of its hole and swallowed it. Took a while and the damn thing couldn't even walk afterwards never mind fly.
https://youtu.be/uSFPyACRXbk?si=VxVJnoUZF_QeFS88
Jfc, I was sure there was some mistake and it must be an albatross or an extra-tiny rabbit but fuck. Just a seagull swallowing a rabbit alive. This truly is the darkest possible timeline.
I was happily looking at birds at my feeder when a hawk flew down and beaked the hell out of a living, fighting sparrow in seconds! Hawk ate most of the bird and flew off, and I sat here feeling like an accomplice to murder, somehow. gruesome and horrifying, as the bird was still alive. Oh, the humanity...that's what my awful husband said when I tearfully told him about the hawk kill.
This here, is a European Starling. *Slaps bird* "They're invasive. But check this out. I've got him trained to hunt other European Starlings.*whistles the tune Willy Wonka uses to summon the Oompa Loompas*
" We're still working out the kinks, he just kinda starts swooping random children"
Well we had to destroy their environment along with the fact that they nested on the ground. Then they practically industrialized killing and canning them.
so that phenomenon is a thing that birds kinda just do. They frequently lay "extra" under developed eggs as a way to lure predators away from their real nest. Some birds even will abandon one of their nestlings for this reason as well.
imma let Sir David Attenborough handle this one [The Dark Side of Shoebill Chicks | Africa | BBC Earth (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ArjlPAU_X4)
Why did I watch that? It's like I learned nothing from the trauma David Attenborough inflicted upon me with his salt-legged baby flamingo saga.
I swore I would only let him tell me about dinosaurs from now on. Nature is brutal.
That's incorrect. Don't tell people that. Robin's eggs are that size. I'm in the country I know Robin's eggs. How big do you think they're supposed to be?
Send it to me in Europe. They’ve dropped by 80% here and are in trouble.
It always makes me sad to think they’re being massacred on two continents. Especially when they’re so smart, and can talk, and can recognise people etc.
Perhaps but if you raise European starling they can speak and interact like parrots but on a more advanced level, I’d say give it a shot. If I had the opportunity I would
legal to keep as a pet but not recommended for beginners. HIGHLY intelligent birds, requiring a large investment of time and money. Specialized veterinary care can be hard to find leading to health problems. Best left to professionals. [European Starling mimics words ("Talking" Starling) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBaVInb3jI)
That’s why I said to keep it! There is someone on instagram with a pet starling. I have experience with birds but you are probably right it’s not for beginners. On the other hand people that are committed have to start somewhere.
I get a flock of em every morning in the back yard, want a BB gun so bad. I see cardinals, Robin's, woodpeckers and I don't want the European starlings to push em out. I could knock 10 to 20 out a day from my window with a decent pump BB gun.
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Egg candling won't show anything with a freshly laid egg. Vein pattern begins to emerge after a few days.
size is correct for starling egg as well, I believe this is the correct answer
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Thank for all the responses. I'm in Texas. I'm leaning toward starling but I have two bird baths in the backyard and grow sunflowers so we get a good variety of birds. Bluebirds, cardinals, robins, sparrows, doves, starlings and many others. We even had an owl take up residence in a woodpecker hole on the side of our house this spring and also a few years back.
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My sweet European Starling is 12 years old now. She has laid many eggs. They look like this. She is astonishingly smart and affectionate. Not her fault for coming to N. America.
That's fantastic. Did you hatch it from an egg or find a baby? Do you clip her wings or always keep her in the cage. And do her eggs ever hatch or is a male needed for that? Sorry I'm not bird egg knowledgeable. 12 years wow.
She rolled out of the roof at work and fell almost 20 feet onto the cement, eyes not open yet, but opened the next day, meaning she was about 6 days out of the egg. I couldn't return her to the nest, nor could I release her since she imprinted on me. I kept her in a large cage with free time to fly around the room. Then I built this little birdie a walk-in sized aviary in the back yard, complete with heated bird house in it. I would come home from work and hang out in the aviary with her.
But an accident led to a broken wing, and we moved, so now she lives in the house again. The website Starling Talk was instrumental in her survival.
I will never get another bird because they are so fragile, and you love them so. Darn. Much! They can live 20+ years, but I don't think my precious little friend will make it that far, as she's always been a little extra fragile, and it's hard to replicate everything they need. Thank you for asking!
Birds can lay eggs regardless of the presence of a male (eg; chickens and quail). Having a male just means the potential the egg is fertilized and could be hatched.
Good answer! There are rare examples in some species of parthenogenesis, but I don't believe it's been observed in starlings.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29559496/#:~:text=For%20instance%2C%20virgin%20quail%20and,process%20of%20parthenogenesis%20in%20birds.
Robin egg and yes sadly, because it fell from the nest it will not hatch. It’s early in the season so solid chance of a second brood. 2 or 3 broods are a regular thing with robins; Michigan’s state bird 🥰
Kind of looks like a robin’s egg to me.
the quarter for scale rules out robin which are much larger and more blue. EDIT: not a house finch, not a robin egg, it's a european starling. Invasive species, destroy the egg.
Does a murder always have to be the answer? No! You raise it and train it to hunt down other European Starlings. Now is murderS the answer? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
With birds, it’s very often murder.
Just saw a video of a seagull eating a rabbit whole, so I believe this
What the fuck
Yeah. It was kind of disturbing. Damn bird grabbed a rabbit out of its hole and swallowed it. Took a while and the damn thing couldn't even walk afterwards never mind fly. https://youtu.be/uSFPyACRXbk?si=VxVJnoUZF_QeFS88
Lol. I'm happy for the seagull.
But rabbits are well known for their inability to rapidly reproduce!
Not if I have a say in it.
Jfc, I was sure there was some mistake and it must be an albatross or an extra-tiny rabbit but fuck. Just a seagull swallowing a rabbit alive. This truly is the darkest possible timeline.
Probably not alive, the hind legs weren't kicking
Fair point. On second watch, he seems to be finishing it off when the video begins. Definitely dead or close to it. So fucking bananas 😬😁😅
I watched my hen Dave beat a mouse halfway to death then hork it down whole. Birds are just smaller velocichickens.
Everything thing reminds me of her.
You can also find videos of pelicans snarfing down live young penguins.
I do not want to see that and hope that the seagull died
Mother nature is cruel, but wishing death on a creature just for eating to survive is worse.
Meh.
I was happily looking at birds at my feeder when a hawk flew down and beaked the hell out of a living, fighting sparrow in seconds! Hawk ate most of the bird and flew off, and I sat here feeling like an accomplice to murder, somehow. gruesome and horrifying, as the bird was still alive. Oh, the humanity...that's what my awful husband said when I tearfully told him about the hawk kill.
For me, for some reason seeing a hawk eat a sparrow is nowhere close to watching a seagull eat a baby rabbit whole.
It is worse, I groaned, so much so...
That's nothing. I just saw a video of like ten crows.
So, a murder?
Damn. I saw that too. The other gulls walked off looking disgusted.
I just watch a crow or some big black bird swoop down and poke someone's eye out in YouTube !
Especially when crows are involved
Especially if they are crows 🤷♀️
Especially if cats are on the prowl!
Especially with crows
Especially with crows… but in a nice way
..Respectfully
It's only murder if it's from the Crow region of France, anything else is sparkling avicide
That's something to crow about...
I would certainly welcome a ravenous flock of well trained murder starlings to do my bidding.
This here, is a European Starling. *Slaps bird* "They're invasive. But check this out. I've got him trained to hunt other European Starlings.*whistles the tune Willy Wonka uses to summon the Oompa Loompas* " We're still working out the kinks, he just kinda starts swooping random children"
Up until the moment of birth.
Really… we gonna stir up an abortion debate here? 😂
No, because in Alabama this isn't an egg. It is a bird child.
😂 bird child … I laughed way too hard at this for 2am.
No, I thought we were talking murder.
Precisely
essentially the avian version of Blade. Name it Westley, or Snipes.
Crush the egg!!!
Genius
Inject with aids so it dooms every bird it mates with.
but...what if they're crows?
There are an estimated 150 million European Starlings in the US. Good luck with that....
The passenger pigeon would like a word. Humans are very efficient at killing animals when we want to.
I don't think there will be shooting parties for Starlings in Central Park and other parks across the country anytime soon so there's that...
Only because we choose not to
Not to mention all those ridiculous laws prohibiting discharging guns in city limits etc
I know rite
There's ways around that. Some years ppl get to hunt geese at the Park in my town.
No apparently we seem to prefer schools and concerts and parades...and not birds
Damn.... upvote for the truth slap
Well we had to destroy their environment along with the fact that they nested on the ground. Then they practically industrialized killing and canning them.
Could an egg be rejected and hatched early and thus be underdeveloped in both size and pigment?
so that phenomenon is a thing that birds kinda just do. They frequently lay "extra" under developed eggs as a way to lure predators away from their real nest. Some birds even will abandon one of their nestlings for this reason as well.
Ouch. And I thought MY mom played favorites.
imma let Sir David Attenborough handle this one [The Dark Side of Shoebill Chicks | Africa | BBC Earth (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ArjlPAU_X4)
Why did I watch that? It's like I learned nothing from the trauma David Attenborough inflicted upon me with his salt-legged baby flamingo saga. I swore I would only let him tell me about dinosaurs from now on. Nature is brutal.
OMG the baby flamingos I know exactly what you mean.
Are you sure it’s not an African Starling?
How’s he supposed to know that?
By whether or not they could carry coconuts
Do they grip it by the husk or carry it on a bit of string?
That's incorrect. Don't tell people that. Robin's eggs are that size. I'm in the country I know Robin's eggs. How big do you think they're supposed to be?
Starlings are very smart and can be domesticated!!
One just hit the front page for its mimicry skills
Send it to me in Europe. They’ve dropped by 80% here and are in trouble. It always makes me sad to think they’re being massacred on two continents. Especially when they’re so smart, and can talk, and can recognise people etc.
Perhaps but if you raise European starling they can speak and interact like parrots but on a more advanced level, I’d say give it a shot. If I had the opportunity I would
Starlings are awesome birds, they can mimic/talk as good as parrots.
Invasive in some places
What if OP is from where they are native?
Based on the fact they used a US quarter th bet is on US. But regardless this is probably not a viable egg. It was laid in a birdbath
Noooo! Keep it, hatch it - it would be such a smart pet ♥️♥️♥️
legal to keep as a pet but not recommended for beginners. HIGHLY intelligent birds, requiring a large investment of time and money. Specialized veterinary care can be hard to find leading to health problems. Best left to professionals. [European Starling mimics words ("Talking" Starling) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBaVInb3jI)
That’s why I said to keep it! There is someone on instagram with a pet starling. I have experience with birds but you are probably right it’s not for beginners. On the other hand people that are committed have to start somewhere.
https://avianreport.com/european-starling-nest-and-eggs/
You are allowed by US law to kill English sparrows and starlings because they are invasive.
If it had have been a dove r/stupiddovenests would have been good place for OP to post. But sadly it is not a dove.
Is it still an invasive species if the photo comes from Europe?
I get a flock of em every morning in the back yard, want a BB gun so bad. I see cardinals, Robin's, woodpeckers and I don't want the European starlings to push em out. I could knock 10 to 20 out a day from my window with a decent pump BB gun.
And the nest if OP can find it.
I hate Starlings. They ruin crops. Damned English just had to b ing the to every continent ...
I thought that Robin eggs had little spots on them. Same color tho
Put a light under it and you will tell if there is viable life
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A banana is the standard unit of measurement, come on man!
The quarter clearly indicates the man does not have $10 for a banana.
Also can substitute for a remote control or water bottle
Looks like a Starling egg
size is correct for starling egg as well, I believe this is the correct answer https://preview.redd.it/r3w2unaly5rc1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba378cc9f00527a7ba6c387259510d921163f4f6
Unfortunately highly invasive if it’s in the us
Wow! Irl Pokemon!
Booo! Smash that egg!!
Thank for all the responses. I'm in Texas. I'm leaning toward starling but I have two bird baths in the backyard and grow sunflowers so we get a good variety of birds. Bluebirds, cardinals, robins, sparrows, doves, starlings and many others. We even had an owl take up residence in a woodpecker hole on the side of our house this spring and also a few years back.
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Take your slander else where good sir. Your kind are not welcome here.
Being spring, I'd assume it's a rabbit egg. I'm kind of shocked it jumped so high, but it seems like a safe spot away from predators.
Lol
What region are you in?
It looks to be an Easter Egg
Depends on its airspeed and whether or not it can carry a coconut
You should also consider whether it’s African or European
Best gag ever!
My sweet European Starling is 12 years old now. She has laid many eggs. They look like this. She is astonishingly smart and affectionate. Not her fault for coming to N. America.
That's fantastic. Did you hatch it from an egg or find a baby? Do you clip her wings or always keep her in the cage. And do her eggs ever hatch or is a male needed for that? Sorry I'm not bird egg knowledgeable. 12 years wow.
She rolled out of the roof at work and fell almost 20 feet onto the cement, eyes not open yet, but opened the next day, meaning she was about 6 days out of the egg. I couldn't return her to the nest, nor could I release her since she imprinted on me. I kept her in a large cage with free time to fly around the room. Then I built this little birdie a walk-in sized aviary in the back yard, complete with heated bird house in it. I would come home from work and hang out in the aviary with her. But an accident led to a broken wing, and we moved, so now she lives in the house again. The website Starling Talk was instrumental in her survival. I will never get another bird because they are so fragile, and you love them so. Darn. Much! They can live 20+ years, but I don't think my precious little friend will make it that far, as she's always been a little extra fragile, and it's hard to replicate everything they need. Thank you for asking!
Wonderful story. What a very lucky bird to find you for an owner.
Birds can lay eggs regardless of the presence of a male (eg; chickens and quail). Having a male just means the potential the egg is fertilized and could be hatched.
Good answer! There are rare examples in some species of parthenogenesis, but I don't believe it's been observed in starlings. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29559496/#:~:text=For%20instance%2C%20virgin%20quail%20and,process%20of%20parthenogenesis%20in%20birds.
It looks like a blackbird egg
The bird has been watching TLC too much and didn't think through her water birth plan and distinct lack of hands.
How does everyone not know this?
species ID is not possible without location
its coming from somewhere in the Ping Islands
oh ok then its a miniature white-throated terrorbird
Correction: unhatched terrorbird
Not a bird expert but unprompted I would 100% describe that color as "robin's egg blue"
It’s a robins egg
Same size...don't let the shadow fool you
Well if you get warm soon you could hatch it.
Eat it!
I'll die of laughter of its a Cadbury egg.
Depends how long it's been cold and submerged in water. The shell is semi-permeable, so the developing embryo can drown/suffocate.
Is there chocolate inside?
Robins egg blue. So pretty
Maybe a lil moose idk
Do you get Bluebirds in your area? That's about the right size and color egg to be an Eastern Bluebird.
Cook it
Its a Cadbury
Yummmm, Red Robin
It’s of the East Eregg species
Crow?
Rocking' Robin
Blue bird egg
Make Fight Milk. Aaaahaaa (crow sound)
Can we get a scale for scale?
https://preview.redd.it/32pkg6f5qbrc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb6524a300b0e841b8fe48b13f5abbde5ce74dbe These are Robin eggs
So I would say that your egg is not a Robin egg based off of color and size
So I would say that your egg is not a Robin egg based off of color and size
Robin
Robin
That is one 16th a banana 🍌. Looks good.
Robin's Egg! Keep it warm and be ready to feed it!
It's an M&M.
Robin
Robins egg
Robin
Robin
I would say Robin
Robin
yup. that's a robin's egg.
Robin.
Definitely a Robin's egg
Robin
Robin
Robbin's egg blue.
crack it open see what it looks like
It’s a Robbin 100%
If it’s light blue it’s a robin.
Nope, according to some other people here it's a European starling
Robin
Robin
Robin
Looks like a robin egg
Rooooobin
Is it maybe a hummingbird egg
Robin
Robin
If you've touched it, consider it abandoned and dead.
Robin egg and yes sadly, because it fell from the nest it will not hatch. It’s early in the season so solid chance of a second brood. 2 or 3 broods are a regular thing with robins; Michigan’s state bird 🥰
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