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Seal Meat Served in Canada

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It also has been a traditional food for generations of hunters in Canada's east who serve it up roasted, or sometimes with a hearty Burgundy sauce. Many diners are huge fans of its taste, describing the mammal's meat as somewhere between duck and veal. Tags: canada meat seals restaurants.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

.” The Labrador Duck “is memorialized by forty-four stuffed specimens in museums and by countless antique featherbeds.” The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”

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Of Whiskey Jacks and Water Ouzels

10,000 Birds

Peregrine Falcon is certainly more elegant than Duck Hawk. And the use of Long-tailed Duck for a waterfowl whose traditional name I decline to type is a small, but real, improvement in the state of civilization as a whole. Also known as Meat-bird, Moosebird, and Lumberjack. But it sounds so much more sophisticated to say Ouzel.

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