egg identification (i know egg collections are illegal)

[whaleomeloette]

i find alot of hatched eggs where live and i take them home and repaire them and frame them because they are beautiful to look at- its taken me ages to find these 3 which arent totally smashed to bits and beyond repair-
what are they?
if you think im an egg collector please look closely at the first egg- you can see iv stuck it back togerther as it was in 3 bits when i found it

i know one is an oyster catcher egg because i watched them from day 1 (idiot dad oyster catcher spent all day pecking his reflection- hilarious)
but the other two im at a loss on.

http://i49.tinypic.com/33opq1w.jpg
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(breif discription of where i live/found the eggs
i live on the out skirts of city and its quiet, i have lots of diff habitats -marshland, rough grass land, coast and estury,ancient woodland within 500 meters of each other and farms within a mile.
this year i had baby lapwings and oyster catchers with in meters of me)

[solus]

I'm not certain (but I'm sure someone who is will be along soon) but I think it is probably against the law to posess any wild birds' eggs - even if you did find them broken.

[whaleomeloette]

Originally Posted by solus

I'm not certain (but I'm sure someone who is will be along soon) but I think it is probably against the law to posess any wild birds' eggs - even if you did find them broken.

it is defo illegal to have any eggs at all. but i found them broken so i dint think there would be any problem in me keeping them and reparing them. its a shame to leave them to be smashed to bits

[BloomingMarvellous]

I think the last eggs a Plover.





Here's a nest I nearly trod on a couple of years ago.

[whaleomeloette]

Originally Posted by BloomingMarvellous

I think the last eggs a Plover.





Here's a nest I nearly trod on a couple of years ago.

the last one is deffo an oyster catcher one- but they do look simmilar, lapwings one look very simmilar also, its the other 2 i dont know. i found them both near each other- they blow into a mesh fence and get caught at the bottom

[Za]

They look like possibly mallard eggs to me, but obviously I cant be sure.
Za

[whaleomeloette]

Originally Posted by Za

They look like possibly mallard eggs to me, but obviously I cant be sure.
Za

one is abit of a duck eggy colour

[Michael A]

Broken one Mallard Middle one looks like Pheasants egg other definately Oyster catcher

[whaleomeloette]

Originally Posted by Michael A

Broken one Mallard Middle one looks like Pheasants egg other definately Oyster catcher

oo thanks muchly, i do sometimes get pheasants on that field, dont see them too much though, theres a mad woman who throws bread at everything and scares them off

[RKB]

Originally Posted by whaleomeloette

it is defo illegal to have any eggs at all. but i found them broken so i dint think there would be any problem in me keeping them and reparing them. its a shame to leave them to be smashed to bits

I'm afraid that's still illegal. You can't have any egg material at all. It's a bit like saying "but it's only a bit of ivory, not a full elephant tusk". Flippant, I know, but that's the way the law sees it, and a bit of an egg is still an egg. I think the fine is something like £5000 per item.