Overview
- Police released surveillance video that shows a woman pocketing eggs from a Canada goose nest near Golf Mill Mall in Niles and asked the public to help identify her.
- Niles police had installed a camera to monitor a nesting pair at the site, and that device recorded the egg removal.
- Animal control officer Allison Cole said the eggs appeared to be a couple of weeks from hatching.
- Local wildlife organizations told police the person in the footage is not one of their employees.
- Authorities reminded residents that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act protects geese, nests, and eggs, so people should leave nests alone and call the state Department of Natural Resources or local wildlife groups if they find abandoned eggs.