Eggs
Bird eggs, black frames, silver frames. Different sizes.
+ Facts about birds eggs.
- Bird eggs vary hugely in size, like the birds themselves.
- The largest egg produced in the bird kingdom is that of the ostrich egg – weighing up to 1.2kg.
- The smallest egg produced in the bird kingdom is that of the hummingbird – weighing half a gram.
- So ostrich eggs are 2000 times the size of hummingbird eggs!
- The elephant birds of Madagascar, now extinct, laid eggs about 14 inches long with a capacity of about 2 gallons – much bigger than ostrich eggs.
- The first and last set of eggs produced by chickens tend to be smaller than the others.
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