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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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As we speak, in Serbia these birds are still hunted in August and September. The scale of massacres is such that in 2001 the Italian customs found 120,702 dead birds from Serbia in just one lorry. Local bird protection NGOs have been demanding a hunting ban on both Quails and Turtle Doves ever since. Left: David Lindo, a.k.a.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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The trip was probably reasonably well planned and it would have been known to these travelers that game birds, as well as deer and fish, were abundant in the region they were traveling to. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well. et al 2001. Of Plymouth Plantation. Crawford, R.D. 41 (extra) 307–314. 11(4):643–57.

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