The difference between oologists (eggers) andbirders

["Peter Shute (NUW)" <>]

On Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:31 AM Terry Bishop wrote:

> Customs has seized quite a few shipments of both bird and
> repile eggs also
> with birds and repiles. In most cases you do not hear if it leads to a
> conviction or not.
Most of those cases would be people trying to smuggle live native bird and 
reptile eggs out for later hatching, wouldn't they?  I've also heard of 
people trying to smuggle racing pigeon eggs in for hatching.  Have you heard 
of eggs being smuggled for egg collecting?
I'm guessing that people motivated by personal obsession might be harder to 
stop than people motivated by pure profit.
Peter Shute 

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