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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