Who's egg is this?

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SmileySun
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Who's egg is this?

Who knows what egg this is, found under a nest in a tree. In qld

Woko
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Knowing exactly where in Queensland would help narrow the search, SmileySun, but I'm wondering if this is a Satin Bowerbird egg. Queensland members might know.

timmo
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It's a bit hard to tell, because so many eggs look a bit like that.

One possibility is that it's a species that hosts a cuckoo and the young cuckoo has tossed the egg out. (e.g. Dusky Woodswallow and Pallid cuckoo).

Otherwise, the closest match I could see to the egg was one of the Miners (but probably not a Noisy Miner). 

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Tim
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