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Most eggs are white and about 1
2
inches long.
Did you know that eggs come in all
sorts of colors, sizes, and shapes?
Most birds that lay white eggs, like
kingfishers and woodpeckers, lay
their eggs in dark holes.
Birds that lay their eggs in open
areas without a nest lay eggs
that are colored like the soil.
This keeps predators from
finding them.
Some birds lay
their eggs in the
nests of other birds
so that the other
birds will hatch
them.
320 Collect and Analyze Data