Worcester's buttonquail
Quail
spotted Button Quail
Posted on 02/18/2009 3:02:19 PM PST by JoeProBono
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.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.
Worcester's buttonquail
Quail
spotted Button Quail
good eatin’
Tastes Like Chicken
With potatos?
Yep - especially when served with a spotted-owl gravy. :=)
why did TV crew not buy it?
“Baluuuuuuut!!”
>why did TV crew not buy it?
Who knows.
Sing a song of coelocanths,
Long extinct old coelocanths;
Bones of ancient coelocanths
Sleeping in the rocks.
Brainy modern scientists
Dig for bones of coelocanths,
Paying native laborers
A pittance for their work.
Higher-earning fishermen,
Nets abulge with with coelocanths,
Howl in gustatorial rants:
Mmmmm…mmmm…good!
“We eat ‘em fried, we eat ‘em poached,
And, pickled, dried, and smoked
We salivate for sushi as
We load ‘em in our boats.”
Oh the coelocanths, old coelocanths,
The paleontologist’s quest:
At lunch while sketching how they looked,
He spills some on his vest.
I had a scout troopin the philippines, Foreign troop 1 BSA and BSP.
We had camporee and had some pure Philippino units camp with us. The boys were expert with sling shots. It was explained to me that the reason there were so few birds on Luzon was because they were killed and eaten during the war and by 1966 had not yet recoverd
I lived in a hotel on Dewey Blvd for a few weeks and the sound of Baaaaaluuut!!! is still in my firmly mind.
WOMAN DEVOURED BY COELANTHS 2006 (PIPE CLEANERS, GLUE, FELT)
That’s the guy — both of ‘em!
What in H—L is she cooking??????
It’s always fun to see who gets that one... ;-)
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