This handout photo released on January 27, 2016 by the Chilean Agricultural and Livestock Service shows an albino peregrine falcon chick and eggs in an incubator at the Sag laboratory in Santiago. Eggs from the species were seized from notorious smuggler Jeffrey Lendrum at Brazil’s Sao Paulo airport in October 2015. – AFP pic, January 22, 2020.
JEFFREY Lendrum spent three decades living as the so-called “Pablo Escobar of eggs”, smuggling fragile shells from the nests of falcons and other birds of prey to wealthy international clients. His racket was smashed in 2018 when customs officers at London’s Heathrow Airport found him in possession of 19 bird-of-prey eggs worth a total of £100,000 .
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