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Cypriot Delights: Part I

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Cyprus Wheatears are the easiest to find of the three endemic birds that occur on Cyprus Black Francolins once bred in Portugal, Spain and Italy, all countries from which this handsome little game bird has long been lost.

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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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The cargo was meant to be sold as delicacies to restaurants in Italy. But by then, all surviving Turtle Doves are already in Africa, and those less fortunate await in deep freezers for their final flight to Italy. And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU.

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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

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While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. 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.

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A covey of Greys

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David Tomlinson If you are American then you will no doubt know Perdix perdix as the Gray Partridge , an introduced game bird now widespread on the prairies of Canada and the northern states of the USA. EBA2 goes on to say that the “Grey Partridge has undergone one of the steepest declines of all European farmland birds”.

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De arte venandi cum avibus: San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC

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While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. To my knowledge, the chronicles don’t record the wine preferences of Frederick II.

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