Putting a password on Birding-Aus wouldn't stop egg collectors
subscribing, Peter .
Any such person (if they can be called that) could simply lay low,
establishing their credentials as a virtuous birdo while sneakily
pursuing their obsession on the side.
Are there any ideas about how much of a problem this is in Australia? I
do know about exporters of live incubated eggs, but I had the idea that
egg-blowers were a dying breed. My grandfather used to do it, he even
showed me how to do it with chook eggs to see how hard it really is. He
said that the smaller the eggs the harder it was.
Bill
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Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2007 12:08 PM
To: Evan Beaver
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Subject: Egg Collectors?
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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