Sandpiper Eggs

Strict action will be taken against the village officials who made a five-year old girl in Rajasthan''s Bundi sit alone outside her house since July 3 as punishment for breaking a bird''s egg, Rajasthan child rights panel chief Manan Chaurvedi said on Thursday.

A five-year-girl was rescued from becoming the victim of superstition by the authorities in the neighbouring Bundi district, an official said.

If a Hollywood exec dreamed up an egg, it would look like a chicken's: immensely popular, with an unblemished complexion. But the universe of wild bird eggs is far weirder and more diverse than the oval products on the supermarket shelf. Hummingbirds lay eggs shaped like Tic Tac mints - "perfect little ellipses," per ornithologist and evolutionary ...

Strict action will be taken against the village officials who made a five-year old girl in Rajasthan''s Bundi sit alone outside her house since July 3 as punishment for breaking a bird''s egg, Rajasthan child rights panel chief Manan Chaurvedi said on Thursday.

A five-year-girl was rescued from becoming the victim of superstition by the authorities in the neighbouring Bundi district, an official said.

If a Hollywood exec dreamed up an egg, it would look like a chicken's: immensely popular, with an unblemished complexion. But the universe of wild bird eggs is far weirder and more diverse than the oval products on the supermarket shelf. Hummingbirds lay eggs shaped like Tic Tac mints - "perfect little ellipses," per ornithologist and evolutionary ...