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Egg Collectors?

To: "Evan Beaver" <>
Subject: Egg Collectors?
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:07:43 +1100
Some egg collectors collect eggs to blow the yolk out and keep the shell. 

Its like collectors of anything, they dont want multiples of the same type 
of egg (e.g 10 indian myna eggs), they want to get new species eggs to add 
to their collection. 

Therefore, its important not to divulge nest details of uncommon species. 
Egg collectors wouldn't be interested in Magpie or Lapwing eggs, since 
they would already have these eggs in their collection. However, a Painted 
Honeyeater egg would  be akin to a gold Shane Warne card with special 
holograph of Warney texting on his mobile phone. 

This is a good reason for birding aus to become a suscriber based/password 
protected list. Since anyones is able to google to find birding aus 
article to find locations of species.






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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Evan Beaver
Lapstone, Blue Mountains, NSW
lat=-33.77, lon=150.64
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