"The Greater Spotted, like all the woodpeckers, lays pure white eggs, with the faintest flush of pink from the yolk showing through the thin shell. The colourlessness of tis eggs is a characteristic that the woodpecker shares in common with most other birds that nest in holes and dark places. Colour in eggs is usually associated with exposed nesting sites, and apparently serves to camouflage the dainty morsels from the hungry gaze of the many creatures that are always ready to raid a nest. In a dark hole colour is useless, and it is a significant fact that the eggs of the majority of birds that nest in holes are white."
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Frances Pitt
(25 January 1888 – 26 April 1964) was an English , author, and . In 1951 she was elected a . In 1954 marketed Edglets Tea, a loose leaf black tea, sold with 1 card per package; there were 20 different illustrated cards showing British birds photographed by Frances Pitt.
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