newyorker:

Mark Thomas (left) and Guy Shorrock keep watch on Britain’s egg obsessives. “These are not normal criminals,” Shorrock says. Photograph by Richard Barnes.
In this week’s issue, Julian Rubinstein goes inside England’s secretive network of people obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds, and the investigators who are trying to catch them:
http://nyr.kr/13FQbwt
Published on August 10, 2013 12:30