Bird Eggs & The Egg Game

Bird eggs come in unlimited colors, shapes, and sizes.  From birds living today the smallest egg is from the Vervain Humming bird, about the size of a pea, and the largest egg is from the ostrich.  The largest known egg, about 15 times the size of an ostrich egg, was from the extinct Elephant Bird Aepyornis maximus.  Bird eggs have been admired for their beauty through out history.  In the 18th century the wealthy would display valuable egg collections.  Early naturalist collected eggs for scientific study.  This study allow us to learn about the relationships and evolution of birds.  From these studies we also learn about things like the affects of pesticides on bird populations.  Below the egg game is an illustration of eggs by Adolphe Millot from Nouveau Larousse [1897-1904], which shows the wide diversity of eggs..  

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How to play The object is to move the egg up to the top nest. 1.  click on the start button in bottom right corner. 2. To move the egg up click anywhere in the game screen. 3.  Turn on your sound if you want to hear noises. To stop or start over click on the refresh button below.

 

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INDEX

1 honey buzzard 2 falcon 3 Eurasian sparrow-hawk 4 blackbird 5 thrush 6 rook 7 corn bunting 8 hawfinch (or perhaps another grosbeak?) 9 sparrow 10 chaffinch (or other finch?) 11 pipit 12 reed bunting 13 cuckoo 14 hummingbird 15 crossbill 16 wren 17 nuthatch 18 nightingale 19 Kinglet (Goldcrest?) 20 accentor 21 bunting 22 reed warbler 23 sedge warbler (or other Acrocephalus?) 24 warbler  25 tit  26 tree warbler 27 waxwing 28 oriole 29 jacana 30 grouse  31 lagopus 32 pheasant 33 partridge 34 quail 35 avocet 36 spotted redshank 37 dotterel 38 plover 39 lapwing

40 green sandpiper 41 tern  42 common tern 43 tern (??) 44 seagull 45 loon 46 guillemot 47 great auk 48 & 49 puffin 50 grebe 51 Emydidae  52 Norvegicus brown rat (??) 53 & 54 catshark (Scyliorhinus) (mermaids' purses) 55 shark (?) 56 chimaera 57 lamprey 58 cuttlefish 59 Arctia 60 Geometer moth (especially genera Idaea & Scopula) 61 Geometer moth genus Nemoria 62 Colias butterfly 63 Diloba butterfly 64 Lasiommata megera 65 Cyclopides butterfly genus (?) 66 Laphygma moth genus 67 Acosmetia moth genus 68 Ennemos moth genus 69 Attacus genus of butterfly 70 Limenitis genus of butterfly 71 Bryophila moth genus (??) 72Catarhoe moth genus (??)

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