"Extinct" bird found - photographed - and umm, eaten

[rinselberg]

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 . . .



Worcester's buttonquail: Tasty, but not on the menu at your neighborhood KFC.


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 [unfortunate?] demise should inspire a "local consciousness" about the region's threatened wildlife.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ird-photo.html


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[GAgal]

If the Wild Bird Club of the Phillipines knew about the newly discovered bird before it was sold for food, why didn't they try to buy it? :finger:

[Dave Nelson]

I wonder if they made sandwiches with the leftovers?

[Spexvet]

An official spokesman said "it tasted like chicken".:p

[harry a saake]

rumor has it that jerry Huang actually ate the bird and offered to share the sandwich with doc in china, but doc politely declined saying give me some lox and cream cheese on a bagel

[eyemanflying]

There wouldn't be enough meat on it for a single fajita. I've seen more meat on a butcher's apron.

[Johns]

If the Wild Bird Club of the Phillipines knew about the newly discovered bird before it was sold for food, why didn't they try to buy it? :finger:

It could have been a jackpot for the guy that found it!

At our local Fair, PETA took a hankering to a steer that had been featured in the local papers. They vowed to "save" the steer by buying it and taking it to a "rescue"(?) farm. This would have been against our Fair rules as all steers are classified as "terminal", which means that they must be butchered.

What happened is that PETA received a bunch of donations, but in the end, a group of parents chipped in and outbid PETA.

The outcome? The girl that raised it made somewhere around $5,000 more than she would have, and made enough money to enter 2 steers the next year!:D

The steer was one of the many animals that are served to the local businesses and individuals that support the Fair, and I must say, it was delicious!
:cheers:

[Night Train]

Reminds me of what happened to Charles Darwin:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=101090483

[GAgal]

The steer was one of the many animals that are served to the local businesses and individuals that support the Fair, and I must say, it was delicious!
:cheers:

UMMM....STEAK....UUUGGGGGG