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While the threat of imprisonment after 2000 encouraged some to give up egg collecting, [4] others were not deterred. One individual has been convicted ten times [9] and imprisoned twice. [10] As recently as 2018, a man was imprisoned for amassing a collection of 5000 eggs, [11] after previously being imprisoned in 2005. [12]
Sex separation enables the broodstock males and females to be subjected to different conditions where necessary. For example, male and female sturgeons respond to different hormone levels, [12] this also allows more control over eggs and sperm. The characteristics of the water in which the mature broodstocks are held must be manipulated.
Egg collecting was a popular hobby in some cultures, including European Australians. Traditionally, the embryo would be removed before a collector stored the egg shell. [35] Collecting eggs of wild birds is now banned by many jurisdictions, as the practice can threaten rare species.
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Egg-collecting is the removal of intact, unhatched eggs from a birds' nest, followed by drilling out the contents to keep the egg intact. It was considered a respectable leisure pursuit in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, at a time when conservation, study and hunting were not seen as opposed activities.
Daniel Lingham, 71, had served two prison sentences for his illegal egg collecting before he was caught on a wildlife trap camera last year. Bird egg collecting ‘addict’, 71, is spared jail ...
The collection numbered more than 2,000 eggs, including eggs from species such as golden eagles and osprey. [2] He successfully defended himself against the subsequent charge of illegal possession in April 1985, claiming that, with the exception of sixteen eggs, he had collected his eggs before the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981 .
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