Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history

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1. Never understood this. Right I’ve stolen a load of eggs, now I’ve just got these eggs laying around my house. Who are these people who collect eggs? Weird.

2. I remember this being a thing decades ago, I didn’t realise people still did it.

3. The jail will need bars small enough for those wild birds

4. It’s quite surprising to me that there’s enough of a market of hobbyist collectors to maintain such a widespread network of illegal trading of them.

5. Despicable people. Wildlife has a hard enough time without these feckers and their collections.

6. Fake eggs would seem to be really, really easy to manufacture. Can we not just flood the market with fake “rare” eggs and make it much more difficult (and less attractive) for these idiots to do this?

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