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06-08-2009, 06:34 AM
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| | | Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
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06-08-2009, 10:58 AM
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| | | Re: Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
That's very sad. It's such a shame that there are still selfish and irresponsible people who continue with this illegal activity. |
06-08-2009, 11:28 AM
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| | | Re: Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
 Lock 'em up and throw away the key, that's what I say!
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06-08-2009, 12:01 PM
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| | | Re: Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
No excuse for this day & age, I admit that I did collect eggs over 25 years ago when I was a kid. I wasn't a clutch collecter & I wouldn't take eggs from a species that only laid one egg fulmar for example. This didn't make it right and although illegal I didn't see the error of my ways back then. What stopped me was finding a Peregrine nest with 4 eggs & me & a friend took 1 each. I couldn't sleep that night & I took the eggs back ( 8 mile cycle ride ) to the nest the next day. Unbelievably the 4 eggs hatched & this was the moment I thought about the comparison of having an egg in a drawer or it being a beautiful bird. So from that day I never took another egg & destroyed my collection. Why grown men go to such lengths is beyond me, custodial scentence is the best deterent I say. |
06-08-2009, 01:39 PM
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| | | Re: Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
Why wasn't the camera further back then the face of the scum would have made catching them more likely as it is no one will be convicted as there is
NO EVIDENCE... |
06-08-2009, 01:49 PM
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| | | Re: Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
The hand looks very delicate, ie a woman or a youngster! chop it off says I lol |
06-08-2009, 01:54 PM
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| | | Re: Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh  Why wasn't the camera further back then the face of the scum would have made catching them more likely as it is no one will be convicted as there is
NO EVIDENCE... | the camera wasnt there to catch eggers - the intention was to record the birds at the nest/ pulli hatching etc
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06-08-2009, 02:49 PM
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| | | Re: Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
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Originally Posted by eeyore the camera wasnt there to catch eggers - the intention was to record the birds at the nest/ pulli hatching etc | I know that but was saying if it had been a little bit further back it would have caught the face as it is they are not going to get who did it anyway..  
Not exactly caught in the act then is it.  |
06-08-2009, 02:57 PM
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| | | Re: Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh I know that but was saying if it had been a little bit further back it would have caught the face as it is they are not going to get who did it anyway..
Not exactly caught in the act then is it. | yeah but if it had been further back it would have been no good for its intended purpose - and anyway the egger would have just turned it round or smashed it anyway
the only real deterent to eggers is an onsite warden , but thats just not realistic outside of the nature reserve setting.
The rspb stone curlew project have also done some interesting work with marking eggs with magic water - but that only helps prosecute, it is first necessary to apehend the collector.
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06-08-2009, 03:03 PM
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| | | Re: Egg collectors steal stone curlew eggs
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Originally Posted by eeyore yeah but if it had been further back it would have been no good for its intended purpose - and anyway the egger would have just turned it round or smashed it anyway
the only real deterent to eggers is an onsite warden , but thats just not realistic outside of the nature reserve setting.
The rspb stone curlew project have also done some interesting work with marking eggs with magic water - but that only helps prosecute, it is first necessary to apehend the collector. | Do the eggers blow the eggs how do they preserve them to stop them going off.
They should coat them in a poison so if the egg come in contact with the lips the egger dies a horrid death..  
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