Hi Evan,
I must say I don't know a lot about the industry, but as I understand there
are two main purposes for egg collecting. The first is collecting eggs for
smuggling - they are kept incubated and are easier to get out of the country
than live birds. I'm guessing mostly parrots are targeted by this. The
other reason is people who collect blown eggs (like you see in a museum
collection), for the sake of collecting them. It's kind of like stamps,
except less environmentally responsible. There was a recent story about the
death of one of the most notorious of these in Britain recently:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1784224,00.html
This kind of behavior has also led people to steal from museums before as
well.
Hopefully someone with more knowledge of the subject than me will continue
the discussion.
Regards,
Chris
On 10/30/07, Evan Beaver <> wrote:
>
> Birders,
>
> 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.
>
> EB
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