Who can honestly say they never collected birds eggs in England in the 60s,
I know I did! That was a 'normal' pastime where I came from. It was very
regulated with strict rules, for example, an egg could only be taken from a
nest with more than 4 eggs in it and the challenge was to take an egg
without disturbing the bird in any way or allowing it to notice an egg was
missing. Anyone who breached these rules was severely dealt with.
These eggs were proudly kept in cotton wool lined "oxo" tins or the like.
Cliff (ex pom)
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Tony Russell
Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2007 1:51 PM
To: 'Evan Beaver'; 'Birding-aus'
Subject: Egg Collectors?
Evan, many many (now sane) birders started off in life as mad egg collectors
- I was one myself until aged about twelve. The trick was to get the
contents out without breaking the shell and then display them to your
friends - those with the best and biggest collections held the most status.
Seems barbaric to me now but that's how it was before I took a different
approach to birds and conservation. Maybe some people are still back there
in the dark ages and we need to guard against their activities.
No doubt there are still others out there prepared to run the gauntlet of
our laws, collecting eggs of desirable species for commercial sale, and they
need to be stopped too. Others collect for museums, but I won't go there.
Tony the ex Pom.
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Evan Beaver
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:19 AM
To: Birding-aus
Subject: Egg Collectors?
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.
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