The New Yorker: "Operation Easter"

[Dick Whitman]

This is loooooong, but it's kind of cool, a piece in this week's New Yorker about this subculture of men in England who poach rare bird eggs (pun intended):

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/22/130722fa_fact_rubinstein

For some reason, I find stories like this about strange obsessives fascinating. Not only are there obsessive egg collectors, but there are obsessive specialized cops/prohis who track them down.