Egg Collection

[T.F.Student 0]

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[lost scouse 46]

they would make a big omlette

[doddsy1970 9]

Errrrrrr....................... No :11:

[foxdropper 17,092]

Thats some collection there fella .Best keep that safe you hear .

[T.F.Student 0]

It's on public display...i've been looking at it now and again for over 20 years...so no problem there...thought i'd better take a picture of it as you never know, when, if, it might become politically correct to remove it.

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

It's on public display...i've been looking at it now and again for over 20 years...so no problem there...thought i'd better take a picture of it as you never know, when, if, it might become politically correct to remove it.

 

 

 

God you crack me up. :11:

[T.F.Student 0]

Glad to here it As my old foreman used to say " If you can't have a laugh you might as well f**k off home" :11:

Edited October 11, 2006 by T.F.Student

[Guest Top Chalker]

Glad to here it As my old foreman used to say " If you can't have a laugh you might as well f**k off home" :11:

 

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" if you cant have a laugh you might aswell f**k of home"

 

 

 

belta........ :11:

[zek 0]

Starting off in the centre, I'd say Emu, with four goose eggs around it, then some duck or hen, and maybe quail (tho' they look a bit big and not quite the right markings IMO). I'd guess they're all legal and mostly farmed eggs. Are those seagull eggs in the corners. Not sure, but thanks for sharing,

 

Zek.

[doxhope 2]

Now thats what I call a collection, jewels the lot of them

[Guest samstheman]

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Eeermmmm.......................local fertility clinic........???????????????

[T.F.Student 0]

Think your right with the Emu, goose and the gull eggs in the corners possibly one of the rings off centre aswell, the singles in each corner i would guess would be greater black back eggs just due to the size/colouration. It is very old and to make this collection today would get you a jail term!

[PBurns 9]

No tree hole dwellers like owl - they tend to be round -- and no ledge nesters as they tend to be pointed. Mostly forest and field birds, and a lot of finches. My emu egg is amost black green so maybe this one has faded a bit? Hard to tell without scale, but a lot of finch eggs of one sort or another.

 

P

[J Darcy 5,871]

If the one in the middle is Emu, then the 4 around it must surely be swan. it is hard to tell without a size reference. The ones in between the "swan" could be crane.?

the ones in each corner look like guillemot...surrounded by curlew perhaps?

[PBurns 9]

Four eggs from my "collection".

 

 

 

 

 

The dark one is an emu, the largest an ostrich, and the other two are chicken eggs that were just eaten for breakfast

 

I include these last two for scale, but also to show the diversity of what eggs can look like -- they can change shape (to some extent) from bird to bird and coloration and markings (to some extent) as well. Egg identification is an in-exact science, especially where speciation is not complete (a LOT of birds) and the number of look-alike eggs are quite numbing.

 

Another small thought: We have pushed a lot of birds over the edge to extinction and near-extinction, but I am always struck by the fact that we never give credit to the fact that a lot of species (or what we would call species if they were wild) are now being created by man. Chickens alone present a startling array of expressed diversity, to say nothing of cattle, roses, corn, broccoli, etc. We are already creating new species of birds (falcon crosses are an example) and fish (hybrid trout, salmon, pan fish, etc.). We stand in the door, I think, of the largest boom in wildlife species creation ever -- some of which may turn out to be monsters, but most of which will be useful or tasty or robust. Not sure how I got off on this idea -- it must be the eggs talking.

 

Patrick

Edited November 18, 2006 by PBurns