Blue or speckled, tiny or large, bird eggs fit nature's design. Subscribe. ... Red-winged blackbirds lay pale blue-green to gray eggs with black or brown markings in their marsh nests.

Birds Got Their Colorful, Speckled Eggs From Dinosaurs A new study found that birds' dinosaur relatives had eggs with traces of two pigments—a red-brown one and a blue-green one.

For example, the sickle-clawed predator Deinonychus had a blue egg with brown blotches and the bird-like Oviraptor, known for its toothless beak, had eggs that were dark blue.

Easter Egg. The First Colored Eggs Appeared Long Before Easter The dinosaur ancestors of birds laid blue, brown, and speckled eggs as far back as 150 million years ago.

The collector of this extremely rare nest and two red-speckled eggs ... ‘this brown, ... London 2024 The gnatcatchers are tiny insectivorous birds found in the New World. The Blue-gray ...

Here’s what the experts say about brown, blue, and colored eggs. ... Generally laid by red or red-brown birds with red earlobes. A pigment protein called protoporphyrin is added as the eggshell ...

While most eggs are white or brown, they also come in colors like cream, pink, blue and green. In addition — and this is no “yolk” — some are even speckled.