Catalyst on Thu had a segment on using DNA to identify smuggled eggs -
showed "Border Patrol"-like footage both of people smuggling eggs in
and out of Aus. One guy who was caught (with eggs in a type of corset)
immediately started to hit his sides to smash the eggs. Apparently it
is important to identify which species are being smuggled as penalty
varies - these guys from memory copped 2 year jail terms?
On 30/10/2007, <> wrote:
> Evan
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> There was a TV news item on Monday about National Bird day that featured an
> original Gould League membership certificate (my wife remembered having
> such a certificate when she was a girl). The certificate required the
> member to undertake not to take bird eggs or lead bird egg collectors to
> nests.
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> The collection of bird eggs is one of many hobbies that became popular in
> the 18th and 19th century as western society became more interested in
> natural history and other cultures. In fact, many museum collections have
> their origins in just such collections. For example, in the 1970s, many
> large Aboriginal stone artefact collections were bequeathed to museums with
> the passing of the collectors. As with other collectors, egg collectors
> catalogued and curated their collections and took part in trading, as well
> as raiding nests, to build the biggest and best collection.
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> The book 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' describes several expeditions to collect
> eggs not represented in the boys' collections. Interestingly, one of the
> keen collectors also attempts to raise rescued fledglings!
>
> The collection of eggs for obtaining and/or illegal export of protected
> wildlife seems to be relatively recent development - perhaps as incubators
> are more accessible and knowledge of getting native species to hatch
> becomes more widespread. More traditional illegal collection of birds
> involved taking fledglings from nests.
>
> Like most of the collecting hobbies, bird egg collecting is definitely
> dodgy and the Gould League's discouragement of the practice is still valid
> today.
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> Regards
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> David
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> 30/10/07 11:48 AM [Birding-Aus] Egg Collectors?
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> Birders,
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> Now I'm treading carefully here, in an effort to better understand a
> contraversial subject. Recently there was talk of a Painted HE nest
> and the potential problems of disclosing this due to egg collectors.
> Now, my question is this: What are egg collectors up to? Collecting
> for export to hatch somewhere else? I would have thought this pretty
> unreliable, keeping the egg alive. Do they actually collect the eggs
> and catalogue them in some sort of collection? Either way it sounds
> very dodgy and not at all to be encouraged. Unless of course they have
> a penchant for Indian Mynah eggs.
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> EB
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> Evan Beaver
> Lapstone, Blue Mountains, NSW
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