One Crept over the Falcon's Nest

Imagine trying to get through airport security with several rows of fertile eggs strapped to your midsection—and not just any eggs, but those stolen from the nests of wild Peregrine falcons. So begins The Falcon Thief by Mark Bowden:

"On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales.
So begins a tale almost too bizarre to believe, following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent on protecting the world’s birds of prey."

This review  makes me want to read the book.