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<p>Police have arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the theft of 299 rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum.</p>
<p>On June 24 last year Hertfordshire Police officers were called to the museum on Akeman Street in Tring, which belongs to the better-known London museum, after receiving reports of a break-in.</p>
<p>It was subsequently discovered that 299 brightly-coloured stuffed birds were missing, believed stolen, from a collections area, a force spokesman said.</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;A man, aged 22 from the US, is currently in police custody. Police have recovered the majority of the bird skins.&#8221;</p>
<p>Speaking at the time, Professor Richard Lane, director of science at the museum, said all the stolen skins were from very colourful, ornate tropical birds.</p>
<p>He said they were mostly male trogons and quetzals from Central and South America as well as birds of paradise from the island of New Guinea.</p>
<p>In a video uploaded by Hertfordshire Police to YouTube, Prof Lane said: &#8220;The Natural History Museum collection of birds is one of the most important collections of birds in the world.</p>
<p>&#8220;Scientists and naturalists from all over the world come to study them. We have about 750,000 specimens of birds which is about 95% of all species of birds known.</p>
<p>&#8220;The particular birds that have been stolen are actually quite uncommon in nature and because they are uncommon in nature they are actually particularly uncommon in big research collections.</p>
<p>&#8220;A number of them are threatened with extinction so therefore losing this material, losing these specimens, we lose the opportunity to understand about birds that are threatened with extinction. That&#8217;s a tragic loss for the birds and it&#8217;s a tragic loss for us.&#8221;</p>
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