No not the chocolate variety folks!
Which do you think is the most beautiful bird egg?
I do like Ostrich eggs as the texture is absolutely beautiful.
It looks like it has been hammered with tiny little hammers by elves / fairies.
But to go with pattern I prefer Quail eggs
To me they are like lots of little unique worlds.
Great line Squirrel! I think it's amazing what the colour of an egg can tell us about the likely species groups. As evolutionary survival mechanisms, the eggs of hole/tree-nesting birds are generally white or pale blue so that the parent birds can locate them and avoid breaking them, and camouflage is less important because the nest itself is usually quite well hidden and camouflaged.
Birds that lay their eggs in the open and on the ground, such as plovers (lapwing etc), rely heavily on their eggs being very well camouflaged!