Colin Watson (egg collector)
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Colin Watson (egg collector)
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Colin Watson was a British egg collector who stole the eggs of rare and wild birds from protected wildlife sites throughout Great Britain for over twenty years before his death. Despite six convictions and fines in thousands of pounds, he amassed the largest egg collection in the country before the collection was confiscated by agents of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) during a 1985 raid on his home. The collection numbered more than 2,000 eggs, including eggs from species s
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2007-01-13T21:17:02Z
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2024-09-14T19:05:25Z
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