“…Complete or partial embryonic development is known of few precocial or semiprecocial birds, particularly poultry and/or species of commercial importance like chickens, quail and other Phasianidae, and ducks (e.g. Fant, 1957;Rempel and Eastlick, 1957;Koecke, 1958;Mun and Kosin, 1960;Phillips and Williams, 1964;Hendrickx and Hanzlik, 1965;Kaltofen, 1971;Dupuy et al, 2002;Ainsworth et al, 2010;Ramteke et al, 2013). A few works have described all or some of the developmental stages of wild birds like Society finch Lonchura striata (Yamasaki and Tonosaki, 1988), Brandt cormorant Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Price, 1938), Barn owl Tyto alba (K€ oppl et al, 2005), emu Dromaius novaehollandiae (Nagai et al, 2011), lapwing Vanellus cristatus (Grosser and Tandler, 1909), Ad elie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae (Herbert, 1967), black stilt Himantopus novaezelandiae (Browne, 2006), and rock pigeon Columba livia (Olea and Sandoval, 2012).…”