Amazing Birds’ Eggs…
The Museum has a wonderful collection of Birds’ Eggs, totalling over 3,000 specimens, and comprising eggs of most of our well-known British birds and many from other countries i.e. India, America, Africa, Australia etc.
It is important to make it clear that the Society’s collections of eggs were collected a century ago. It has been illegal to take birds eggs from the wild since 1954. Since September 1982, with the introduction of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act, it has also been against the law for a person simply to possess the egg of any British wild bird. Museums are permitted to hold old egg collections for research and educational purposes.
CLICK HERE to read more about these collections of particular interest:
The W.J. Ashford Collection
The Dr. Albert Batley Collection
The Shirley Wyllys Collection
