Posted by Tom Napier on July 24, 2013 at 08:01:47 user Didymus.
Fans of Great Northern? might like to check the long article, Operation Easter by Julian Rubinstein, which appeared in the 22nd July issue of New Yorker magazine.
Although there is no mention of AR, the article starts where GN leaves off, with the arrest of an egg-collector on the Hebridean island of Rum. Collecting the eggs of rare birds has been illegal in Britain since 1954. Currently the police and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds are cooperating in Operation Easter to round up and jail egg-collectors.
If precedent were followed, Jemmerling's latter day successor would face six months in jail, the destruction of the entire Jemmerling Collection and being banned from entering Scotland.
Fortunately, egg-collectors are themselves an endangered species. Rubinstein reports there are no more than 50 left and they are almost all elderly. Now could someone tell the Coot Club?