Thief Apprehended in Last Summer's Stuffed Bird Robbery at the UK's Natural History Museum

Bravo to this fall for providing some great museum burglary stories that haven’t just ended with us chiding lax security or reluctantly admiring a thief’s handiwork. Following last month’s “moss man” arrest, the news from the UK is that authorities there have captured the man responsible for last summer’s theft of nearly 300 bird skins from the country’s Natural History Museum (of their collection of somewhere around 750,000). The BBC reports that the suspect is a 22 year-old American man and “the majority of the bird skins” have been recovered.