The ortolan was so prized as a delicacy that it was almost hunted into extinction. |
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The beccafico, however, is not as a rule artificially fattened, and on this account was preferred by some sensitive tastes to the ortolan. |
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Description of the capture and stuffing of the game bird ortolan which is a great food delicacy. |
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My earliest food memory... Seeing my grandfather catch an ortolan. |
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Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all. |
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Among bird species the more noteable include Bonelli's Warbler, Hoopoe, Ortolan and Rock Buntings. |
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Bardsey scored with a Marsh Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Ortolan Bunting, Nightingale, Ring Ouzel and Red-throated Pipit. |
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