While working out in the Great Victoria Desert a few years back, my Aboriginal coworker suddenly yelled ‘Turkey!’, stopped the ute in a hail of dust and stones and reached into the back for his gun. The Turkey turned out to be an Australian Bustard and after a fair few misses Richard brought it down. My remonstrances about shooting protected birds were met with a disdainful remark about this not applying to indigenous people (I expect this is true but I wasn’t going to argue, it was his country). Anyway, that night the Webber was set to work and we had BBQ Bustard. Dry and a bit tasteless, very like Turkey if anyone needs that info for their records. Cheers Pat — Pat O’Malley, Faculty of Law University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia 0404273392 (Mobile) pat.omalley@sydney.edu.au Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Hi all, There is a nice historic article related to eating Australian wildlife at: http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6374878 It tells of menu for the Acclimatisation Society’s dinner : held at Scott’s Hotel, Collins Street West, on Wednesday, July 6, 1864 The Acclimatisation Society was that special group of people who imported such wondrous animals and plants to Australia as the rabbit, starling, fox and blackberry. cheers Jenny http://jenniferspryausbirding.blogspot.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org