All-New Ornithology Thread

GET OFF NOISE BOARD

ban louis jagger

ban all britishes

oh fuck, move to ILE

BAN BIRDS

God, I used to be a master

BAN ROLL-ON

http://www.funnyhub.com/pictures/img/what-bird.jpg

http://www.papuaweb.org/gb/foto/muller/ecology/06/02.jpg
The Metallic Starling, Alponis metallica, provides delicious snacks for young boys. They hunt them seasonally in swampy areas where the birds flock at dusk. The boys hide there and use long, thin branches to bat the birds down. The birds are then quickly roasted and eaten.

when i get back from france in 8 days i expect this thread to be back on-topic. sayonara, ilx

BAN LOUIS JAGGER IN HIS ABSENCE

^^^ this

Ban J$NOT, Kevin Paul Bozelka, and Zelda Zonk as well.

BAN DE SOLIEL

BAN OF BROTHERS

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Ortolan.JPG/240px-Ortolan.JPG
http://motsetmauxdemiche.blog50.com/images/medium_ortolan.jpg

After being diagnosed with cancer, and spending some time traveling, Mitterrand returned to France, and joined a group of close friends and family and indulged in a rather memorable last meal. Mitterrand, in a deteriorating state of health, drifted in and out of consciousness during the event, but nonetheless had his wits about him well enough to put together a menu.

The fact that Mitterrand was the President certainly doesn't hurt in the creation of a legendary meal - but, in this case it isn't all there is too it. Francois Mitterrand ordered a last meal of oysters, foie gras, capons and a tiny, yellow-throated songbird that is illegal to eat, the ortolan bunting. The ortolan bunting is a bird about size of your thumb, that is illegal to eat because it is very nearly extinct. In traditional French cooking ortolan is considered to be a dish that embody's the very soul of France, and there are still famous chefs who will prepare it, feeling it is thier duty to do so.

The preparation of this tiny, and illicit bird, in some ways makes the process of making foie gras seem trivial. The birds, caught wild are first either blinded or kept in a lightless box for a month or more to gorge on oats, millet, grapes, and figs, a fattening technique apparently taken from the decadent cooks of Imperial Rome who named the birds beccafico, or 'fig-pecker'. When they've been appropriately fattened, they're drowned in a snifter of Armagnac, and roasted whole.

Now imagine 30 of Mitterrand's friends and family all about the table with large white napkins covering their heads, before each a small bird, about the size of a Buffalo wing, which they are expected to eat, whole. The Napkin over the head is part of the tradition of eating ortolan, and there are several reasons reported for eating the bird this way. While most claim that it allows you to fully appreciate the aroma and depth of taste of the bird, there are others who claim that it is done in symbolic shame. The tradition of covering one's head while eating the bird was supposedly first started by a priest trying to hide his sadistic gluttony from God, which has transformed in some minds the act of eating this bird to a near religious experience, the bird a symbol of innocence transformed in an act of gluttony symbolic of the fall from grace.

ban all britishes

cosign 100%

NEW YORK - A peacock that roamed into a fast-food restaurant parking lot was attacked by man who vilified the bird as a vampire, animal-control authorities said.

Beaten so fiercely that most of his tail feathers fell out, the bird was euthanized, said Richard Gentles, a spokesman for the city’s Center for Animal Care and Control.

The film ends with Leonard infiltrating the vegetarian base, fending off the vegetarians with magic meat he received from a magician, freeing the captive animals and flooding the base using dish soap. He escapes by riding an ostrich on the roof of the building, with the ostrich flying him down.

i like the cut of this thread's jib

i bet steve shasta has eaten ortolan with said white napkin over his head

I don't even eat softshell crabs b/c grossed out by the "wholeness" aspect, forget ever eating a songbird with bones that crunches and munches.

seriously. i can't even eat calamari with recognizable squid parts.

mmmm squid parts and soft-shell crabs

you guys are missing out on the soft shell crab and squid (the tentacles are much more tender than the rings)

birds are wretched. horrible.

and they all want to eat my eyes out.

is this guy one of those deranged sicko's that thinks feeding pigeons is anything but a degenerate activity?

SS crabs: snip off their faces, dredge them in peppered flour, deep-fry them.

-- eater, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:51 (1 week ago) Link

bell labs, do you have a link to that txt?

Feathered dinosaur fossil finds to date, together with cladistic analysis, suggest that many types of theropod may have had feathers, not just those that are especially similar to birds. In particular, the smaller theropod species may all have had feathers and possibly even the larger theropods (for instance T. rex) may have had feathers, in their early stages of development after hatching. Large adult theropods are unlikely to have had feathers, however, as the need for insulation would be less important, since inertial heat retention would likely be sufficient to manage heat. Retention of internal heat may even have become a problem, had these very large creatures been feathered.

jon:
http://www.chilefire.com/posting-detail.asp?Post_ID=73&Recipe_ID=

also will you please ban louis jagger asap thx

start a poll to nominate him for banning

no just ban him thx

DONE

jon why you refuse to do this thing

somehow, I knew there'd be an ortolan on here.

jon doesn't like banning "requests"

i'm also guessing he cried at the ending of old yeller

jon goes with his heart

the heart wants what the heart wants

The heart wants to be made into a face.

lewis, a man's heart is stonier...

He grows what he can, and tends it

Elsewhere in Scotland, a buzzard assailed a
jogger, puncturing the man's scalp with its talons. "I
don't know why the bird went haywire like that," said
Kevin Barclay, a psychiatric nurse. "I think it was
nesting and must have been intimidated by me."

Aeschylus died when a bird mistook his bald pate for a rock, and attempting to crack open a turtle shell, dropped it directly overhead.

i think i would try ambelopoulia, a cypriot dish made of robins, looks kind of tasty
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2005/20050920_ambelopoulia.jpg

http://www.musedit.com/MusicLib/Bass/Ornithology.png

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B14F934540C778CDDAD0894DF404482

grrr times select

it was bascially about some douche who caught sparrows in a window trap and fed them to his tonied friends in fort greene

i read that...somethign v. v. annoying about that story...dude has a cookbook doesnt he?