Editing Oology (section)

===As a hobby===
Egg collecting was still popular in the early 20th century, even as its scientific value became less prominent. Egg collectors built large collections and traded with one another. Frequently, collectors would go to extreme lengths to obtain eggs of rare birds. For example, [[Charles Bendire]] was willing to have his teeth broken to remove a rare egg that became stuck in his mouth. He had placed the egg in his mouth while climbing down a tree.<ref name=Henderson />

In 1922, the British Oological Association was founded by [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild|Baron Rothschild]], a prominent naturalist, and the [[Francis Charles Robert Jourdain|Reverend Francis Jourdain]]; the group was renamed the [[Jourdain Society]] after Jourdain's death in 1940. Rothschild and Jourdain founded it as a breakaway group after egg collecting by members of the [[British Ornithologists' Union]] was denounced by [[Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton|Earl Buxton]] at a meeting of the [[Royal Society for the Protection of Birds]].<ref name="Rubinstein">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/22/130722fa_fact_rubinstein?currentPage=all | title=Operation Easter The hunt for illegal egg collectors | magazine=The New Yorker | date=22 July 2013 | access-date=10 November 2013 | author=Rubinstein, Julian}}</ref>