Stone Curlew with Eggs Burhinus oedicnemus

Stone Curlews lay their two eggs on open ground where they will be camouflaged. Here on some open farmland (smallholding).

This time on open steppe. All photos on this page are from Alexandra Makhnina, taken in Kazakhstan.

Size comparison: sparrow. "Are you hoping that those rocks will hatch?"

The eggs still need to be sat on (incubated) and protected from the sun's heat and from cold.