“laughable”: Judge Paulo Marcos Rodrigues de Almeida, Federal Justice Court, judgment and sentence, Guarulhos, Brazil, December 14, 2015.
“Let’s have coffee”: Tomei, interview, October 14.
“During [downtime] in Itaí”: João Batista, Jr., “Os presos que vêm de fora: Torre de Babel carcerária guarda 1,443 detentos de 89 nacionalidades. Populacão nunca foi tão grande e não para de aumentar,” Veja (Brazil), August 6, 2011.
“Sometimes not even”: “Information Pack for British Prisoners in Brazil,” British Embassy Brazil, July 21, 2015.
“There was a danger”: Tomei, interview, October 14.
“I had nothing but shit in Brazil”: Jeffrey Lendrum, phone interview by author, March 16, 2018.
“contagious”: Michelle Conway, interview by author, London, January 9, 2019.
“Then I saw an article”: Howard Waller, interview by author, Inverness, Scotland, January 23, 2018.
“I knew that I was going to die”: Lendrum, phone interview, March 16.
“Nobody was looking”: Tomei, interview, October 14.
“Hey Rodrigo, I’m in”: Tomei, interview, October 14.
“Ex-SAS Rare Egg”: Ben Hurst, “Ex-SAS Rare Egg Thief Who Tried to Smuggle Birds Through Birmingham Airport on the Run,” Birmingham News, January 6, 2017.
“Britain’s Most Protected”: Abigail O’Leary, “Britain’s Most Protected Bird Under Threat From SAS-Trained Wildlife Hunter,” Daily Mirror, January 5, 2017.
Chapter Seventeen: Gauteng
“Andy McWilliam is telling”: Jeffrey Lendrum, phone interview by author, May 10, 2017.
“manna from heaven”: Jeffery Lendrum, phone interview, May 10.
“complete and utter rubbish”: Andy McWilliam, email to author, April 3, 2018.
“She is very stressed”: Julia Dupree, email to author, December 3, 2017.
“What f****** audacity!”: Pat Lorber, email to author, November 16, 2017.
“You’re sworn to secrecy”: John Brebner, Black Eagle Project, interview by author, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, December 11, 2017.
“That’s a fairly new”: Brebner, interview, December 11.
“He’s got a very tough life”: Richard Lendrum, interview by author, Rosebank, South Africa, December 18, 2017.
“We both love wildlife”: Richard Lendrum, interview, December 18.
“Obviously, there are breeders”: Richard Lendrum, interview, December 18.
“My short-term memory is failing”: Jeffrey Lendrum, phone interview by author, December 18, 2017.
“You probably recognized”: Jeffrey Lendrum, interview by author, December 18, 2017.
“He seems to be successful”: Bob Elliot, RSPB, interview, “Notorious Bird Egg Thief on the Run in Brazil,” BBC Today radio program, January 6, 2017.
“The devil is in the details”: Jeffrey Lendrum, interview, December 18.
“Things happen”: Jeffrey Lendrum, interview, December 18.
“Do you want to steal”: Jeffrey Lendrum, interview, December 18.
Epilogue
“I’m at my son’s graduation”: Author’s notebook, June 24, 2018.
“Call if you want”: Jeffrey Lendrum, email to author, June 24, 2018.
“Rare Bird Eggs Importation”: “Rare Bird Eggs Importation Prevented by Border Force at Heathrow,” National Wildlife Crime Unit press release, June 28, 2018.
“free medical care”: Craig Hunt, phone interview by author, January 20, 2019.
“ Jeff is gentle as a lamb”: Michelle Conway, interview by author, London, January 9, 2019.
“A couple of times”: Jeffrey Lendrum, testimony, The Queen v. Jeffrey Lendrum, Snaresbrook Crown Court, January 10, 2019.
“South Africa was cutting”: Jeffrey Lendrum, testimony, The Queen v. Jeffrey Lendrum, January 10.
“You are a convicted smuggler”: Sean Sullivan, prosecutor, cross-examination of Jeffrey Lendrum, The Queen v. Jeffrey Lendrum, January 9, 2019.
“completely implausible”: Judge Neil Saunders, judgment, The Queen v. Jeffrey Lendrum, January 10, 2019.
“rife”: “Pentonville Is ‘Crumbling and Rife with Vermin,’ ” BBC News, August 22, 2018.
“There’s more hits”: Jeffrey Lendrum, testimony, The Queen v. Jeffrey Lendrum, January 9, 2019.
“bad character”: Andy McWilliam, interview by author, Liverpool, January 11, 2019.
“As long as you’re”: McWilliam, interview, January 11.
“It’s out of our control”: McWilliam, interview, January 11.
“I got twelve months’ probation”: Poached, directed by Timothy Wheeler (Ignite Channel, 2015), on-camera interview with John Kinsley.
“reveals the issues”: Poached, on-camera interview with Kinsley.
“I went round”: McWilliam, interview, January 11.
“incorporated as a sacred sign”: H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (New York: Penguin, 2016; original edition published 1888), 265.
“I think that if required”: Tim Birkhead, The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 15.
“It’s like meeting”: McWilliam, interview, January 11.
INDEX
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Abu Dhabi falcon racing, 39–40
falconry in culture of, 37
United Arab Emirates founding and, 135
See also Gulf States; Gulf States falconry; United Arab Emirates
Adelard of Bath, 131
African black eagle author’s sighting of, 252–53
egg smuggling, 89, 211
Adrian and Jeffrey Lendrum egg raiding, 59, 86
Matobo National Park survey, 51–54, 252
African Black Eagle Survey (Matobo National Park), 51–54, 252
African hawk eagle, 55, 61
African Hunting Gazette, 226–28, 230–32
AfricaXtreme, 119–23, 125–26, 199, 200
Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG) (Chile), 237, 240–41
Algeria, 141
Allen, Mark, 32, 132
Altai-Sayan region, 15
Anderson, David, 159
animal cruelty investigations, 18, 104–5, 194–95
animal rights movement, 105
Arab falconry. See Gulf States falconry
Arabian Sands (Thesiger), 138–39
Asenjo, Rafael, 240–41
Astbury, Keith, 263
Audubon, John James, 165
augur buzzard, 54, 55
badger baiters, 8, 104
Bahrain, 36–37
Baker, J. A., 34–35
bats, 188
Beckett, Andy, 69
Bedouins, 31–32, 139
Bell, Tony, 264, 265
Bendire, Charles, 98, 165–66
Bennett, Andy, 36
Benson, S. Vere, 76
bird endangerment black market falcon trade and, 14–15
insecticides/pesticides and, 10–12, 133, 273
peregrine falcon CITES status, 12–13, 207
See also wildlife protection regulations
bird laundering, 9, 94, 154, 191–92
BirdLife Zimbabwe, 84, 85, 86, 90, 219
Birds Directive (1979) (Great Britain), 207
Birkhead, Tim, 97–98, 100
bizzuar (luggar falcon), 132
Black Eagle, The (Gargett), 53–54
black market falcon trade bird endangerment and, 14–15
bird laundering, 9, 94, 154, 191–92
falcon breeding and, 191–92
Gulf States clients, 14, 42, 150
McWilliam’s disgust with, 16, 17
ongoing activity, 152–54
Operation Falcon, 150–51<
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See also egg smuggling; Lendrum’s egg smuggling operation
black market rare-bird trade, 193–94 See also black market falcon trade
black shaheen falcon, 209
Blavatsky, Helena, 274
Bokmakierie, 55–56
Book of Saint Albans, 32–33
Bradshaw, Toby, 155
Brazil Lendrum arrest, 241–42
Lendrum case, 242–45, 247–48
Lendrum spider bite, 246–47
Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), 241–42
Brebner, John, 252–53
breeding. See falcon breeding
British Oological Association (Jourdain Society), 100, 101, 109
Britwell, Francis J., 98
Browne, Thomas, 97
Brunstrom, Richard, 181–83, 184–85, 188
Buglife, 190
Burnham, Kurt, 160
Butti bin Juma Al Maktoum, Sheikh falcon breeding, 136–38, 143–47, 148–49
falcon hunting, 139
gyrfalcon import, 141, 143
overseas hunting trips, 140
wildlife conservation and, 147–48
buzzard, 108
Cade, Tom, 134
Cale, Holly, 111
Calhoon, John C., 98
caliology, 108
Canada Lendrum’s proof of concept mission (1999), 126–27
wildlife protection regulations, 13, 159
See also Lendrum’s Canadian gyrfalcon egg trip
Canning, Derek, 192
Carson, Rachel, 11–12, 16–17
Chance, Edgar, 99, 100
chough, 107–8
CITES. See Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna
Close, Bryn, 38
Clouds Falconry, 193
conservation movement. See environmental consciousness; wildlife protection regulations
Control of Trade in Endangered Species Enforcement Regulations (1997) (Great Britain), 13, 187, 207
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) animal cruelty and, 105
Article 10 documents, 14, 191–92
black market rare-bird trade and, 194
on ivory smuggling, 189
Lendrum Brazil arrest and, 241
on peregrine endangerment status, 12–13, 207
ratification of, 133
on taxidermy, 18, 105
United Arab Emirates as signatory to, 137
Convention on Migratory Species, 154
Conway, Michelle, 57–58, 246, 265, 268
Cook, Roger, 151
Costing the Earth (Sedley), 217
counterterrorism forces, 3–4
Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000) (Great Britain), 103, 181
crowned eagle, 47, 60–61, 89, 253
Customs and Excise Management Act (1979) (Great Britain), 13, 207
Davies, Rob, 52
D’Cruze, Carlton Julian chough egg raiding, 107–8
confiscated egg collection of, 273
egg collecting as obsession and, 107–8, 110–11
Higham case and, 106
McWilliam’s arrest of, 102–3
recidivism of, 222
sentence of, 114
thrill orientation and, 110
Victorian era and, 109
white-tailed sea eagle egg raiding, 110–11
DDT, 10–11, 12, 133, 273
De Arte Venandi cum Avibus (On the Art of Hunting with Birds) (Frederick II of Hohenstaufen), 33, 131
de Nevers, Jean, 142
dieldrin, 12
Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (Layard), 33–34
Dubai black market falcon trade, 154
falcon racing, 37–39
falconry in culture of, 37
industrialization, 139–40
United Arab Emirates founding and, 135
Waller’s falcon breeding, 40, 136–38, 143–47, 148–49
wildlife conservation, 147–48
See also Gulf States; Gulf States falconry; United Arab Emirates
Dudley, Alan, 189–90
Dugmore, Philip, 211
Duncan, Pete, 172–74, 175
Dupree, Julia, 251
ecology. See environmental consciousness
Edwardian era, 98, 99–100, 109
Edwards, Steve, 60–61, 81
Egg Buddy, 19–20
egg collecting confiscated collections, 272–75
Green case, 95–97
history of, 97–101
Lendrum’s childhood interest in, 43, 44–46, 47
Adrian and Jeffrey Lendrum’s collection, 81–82, 83–84
McWilliam’s investigations, 9, 101–3, 106–7
as obsession, 100, 107–11, 112–14, 274
physical risks of, 98–99, 109–10
recidivism in, 222
Shorrock on, 94
thrill orientation and, 110
Victorian era, 97–98
egg smuggling falcon breeding and, 154–55
Gulf States clients, search for, 18, 151, 223–24, 251, 254, 258
Adrian Lendrum involvement, 82, 88–89, 211
Manchester and Dover arrests, 15–16
1980s increase in, 89
recidivism in, 222
thrill orientation and, 130, 258
See also Lendrum’s egg smuggling operation; Lendrum’s South Wales egg smuggling case
elephants, 189
Elliot, Bob, 257
endangered-animal skulls, 8, 189–90
Endangered Species Act (1973) (United States), 132–33
Endangered Species Act (1976) (Great Britain), 188, 207
environmental consciousness bird endangerment and, 11–12, 16–17
egg collectors and, 100–101
Gargett, 53
Matobo National Park raptor surveys and, 53
McWilliam, 16–17, 111
Middle Eastern falconry and, 140–41
Western falconry and, 41
Environmental Crimes Act (Brazil), 244
Eucharisticos (Paulinus of Pella), 32
Eurasian eagle owl, 127
European Union, 187, 207
Evelyn, John, 97
exotic feather trade, 94
Fabergé eggs, 100
Falcon (Macdonald), 36
falcon breeding black market falcon trade and, 191–92
development of, 133–35
egg smuggling and, 154–55
racing and, 38, 40, 41
registration certificates for, 191–92
Waller, 136–38, 143–47, 148–49
falcon racing, 37–40, 41, 141 See also Gulf States falconry
falconry Medieval Europe, 32–33, 131, 142–43
modern Western, 41, 132–33
Nazi Germany, 133
See also Gulf States falconry
Falconry in Arabia (Allen), 132
Fast Lad (gyrfalcon), 38
Featherstone, Lee, 18–21
Fernández, Nicolas, 235–37, 239–40, 241
Ford, Emma, 141–42, 143
Fox, Nick, 41, 154–55, 215
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen (Holy Roman Emperor), 33, 131
Froglife UK, 190
gamekeepers, 188
Gardiner, Barry, 186
Gargett, Eric, 54, 58
Gargett, Valerie African Black Eagle Survey, 53–54
African hawk eagle survey, 55
environmental consciousness of, 53
expertise of, 53
guilt of, 91
Adrian and Jeffrey Lendrum arrest and, 84
Lendrum Matobo egg raiding and, 59, 60, 61, 84–85
Adrian and Jeffrey Lendrum trial and, 86
Lendrum Zimbabwe arrest and, 83, 84
Rhodesian Bush War and, 58–59
Rhodesian Ornithological Society and, 56
Glamorgan (Morris), 204
Gonshaw, Matthew, 109, 11
0, 112
Göring, Hermann, 133
Graham, Charles, 225–26
great auk, 273
Green, Dennis arrest of, 95–96
confiscated egg collection of, 273, 274–75
D’Cruze and, 102
imprisonment of, 114
psychological problems of, 112, 113
sentencing of, 96–97
greenshank, 108–9
Griffin, Harry, 101
Griffiths, Ceri, 15
Griffiths, Robert, 213
Guildford, Ian, 203–6, 213, 214
Gulf States industrialization, 139–40
oil industry, 36–37
United Arab Emirates founding, 135–36
See also Gulf States falconry
Gulf States falconry Bedouins and, 31–32
black market falcon trade and, 14, 42, 150
breeding and, 38, 40, 41
business opportunities and, 41–42
bustard depletion and, 138, 140
cultural importance of, 37
egg smuggling clients, search for, 18, 151, 223–24, 251, 254, 258
nineteenth century, 33–34
overseas hunting trips, 140–41
passage trapping and, 132
racing, 37–40, 41, 141
gyrfalcon black market trade in, 15, 159
characteristics of, 141–42
environmental threats to, 160
Gulf States importation of, 141, 143
in Medieval European falconry, 32, 142–43
prices for captive-bred, 40
See also Lendrum’s Canadian gyrfalcon egg trips
Gyrfalcon (Ford), 143
Habitats Directive (1992) (European Union), 207
Haeckel, Ernst, 99
Hamdan bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Sheikh (crown prince of Dubai), 37–39, 40, 141
harpy eagle, 127
Harris, Steve, 104, 106, 114
Hawk Board (Great Britain), 151
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 274
Higham, Anthony arrest of, 106–7
confiscated egg collection of, 273
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