Some of the coolest eggs in the world are belong to a bird called the Gyra Cuckoo from South America. They start off with this white powder around them, but it's a blue egg. And so over time the blue wears off and it wears off in this kind of patchwork fashion that just gives a really beautiful color to them. We just don't ever have an opportunity to see a lot of these.
This encore includes tons of previously cut and never-before-heard bonus material (and maybe an eggregious number of sidenotes) about how perfect and weird eggs are. The biggest eggs! The smallest eggs! The people arrested for stealing the most eggs! Oologist Dr. John Bates gives Alie a tour of the egg vault at the Field Museum of Chicago and it was a barrage of beautiful sights and shocking facts about bird butts. Get ready for speckly eggs, falcon tales, delicate treasures, snake nesting, pigeon mysteries, modern research with old artifacts, Easter trivia, and whether or not you can hatch chickens from grocery store eggs. Also the carnival ride Alie will never ever ever go on.
Field Museum of Chicago
The Book of Eggs
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