And the darn thing tasted just like spotted owl.
Posted on 02/18/2009 10:09:04 PM PST by pissant
February 18, 2009—A rare quail from the Philippines was photographed for the first time before being sold as food at a poultry market, experts say.
Found only on the island of Luzon, Worcester's buttonquail was known solely through drawings based on dated museum specimens collected several decades ago.
Scientists had suspected the species—listed as "data deficient" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's 2008 Red List—was extinct.
(See related bird photo: "Rare 'Smiling' Bird Photographed in Colombia.")
A TV crew documented the live bird in the market (above) before it was sold in January, according to the Agence France-Press news agency.
Michael Lu, president of the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines, told AFP the bird's demise should inspire a "local consciousness" about the region's threatened wildlife.
"What if this was the last of its species?" Lu said.
However, the buttonquail is from a "notoriously cryptic and unobtrusive family of birds," according to the nonprofit Birdlife International, so the species may survive undetected in other regions.
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And the darn thing tasted just like spotted owl.
...so it goes.
Extinct before or after eaten?
Can’t wait for PETA’s response. (It is kind of pretty, though.)
No wonder they are extinct. You have to eat 30 at one sitting to get a meal.
I heard it ... tastes like chicken.
“What if this was the last of its species?” Lu said.
Uh, Lu, if it was “last of its species”, dinner plate or roaming for a non-existant mate, it was the last of its species.
LOL!
At least it can remain extinct now!!!
No wonder they are extinct. You have to eat 30 at one sitting to get a meal.
***Then you can make a neat hat with the feathers and sell them. (Ahhh...capitalism)
So's a peacock. And, I must say they are delicious as well.
At least they didn’t miss the chance to see what it tasted like!
It looks delicious.
Too funny. But at least the coral is growing in Dubai, thank God.
I guess I’m the only one that doesn’t take such a flippant view of God’s creations. The world is better with things in it.
Maybe they did.
And thought it was delicious. :-P
The following day, the woman telephoned her mother.
"Mama, did you like the cockatoo that I sent you?" "Oh it was delicious!" she replied. "Mama, what do you mean delicious?" "I made soup out of it." "But mama, that bird spoke six different languages!" "Oh dear!" her mother cried, "Why didn't it say something?"
You've never seen "Jurassic Park," have you?
Mark
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