Yes, there is that. However, Gould also loved to eat Rosellas - "It was not
long after my arrival in the country before I tested the goodness of the flesh
of this bird as a viand, and I found it so excellent that I partook of it
whenever an opportunity for my doing so presented itself. It is delicate,
tender, and well-flavoured.”
> On 31 Dec 2017, at 11:50 pm, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>
> Well, up into, probably the mid 20th C, the shotgun was one of an
> Ornithologist’s main tools. After all, the main item of collection, was the
> skin. What do you do with in the middle of the dongs, when faced with fresh
> meat, why, you eat it. There must have been some grim dinners, unless they
> carried a good selection of herbs and spices. I don’t think that any amount
> of herbs and spices could make the likes of Cormorant, Dmuttonbird or
> Albatross palatable, unless one were truly starving and suffering severe
> kwashiorkor.
>
>
> On Sunday, December 31, 2017, Laurie Knight <> wrote:
> No doubt. Still it is ironic that: "A conservationist, despite his propensity
> to shoot everything from wandering albatross to emu wrens, Gould lamented the
> loss of species as a result of the white man’s invasion."
>
> > On 31 Dec 2017, at 9:31 pm, Brian Fleming <> wrote:
> >
> > I think it hardly surprising that early collectors ate their specimens
> > after skinning them! They were camping out, often with limited supplies,
> > and fresh meat was very welcome. Not just birds either. Gould writes with
> > great feeling of the excellence of a large Red Kangaroo which sustained his
> > whole party when they had run out of food in South Australia.
> >
> > Anthea Fleming
> >
> >
> > On 31/12/2017 10:19 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
> >> Early ornithologists like to eat their subjects - see
> >> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/30/pecking-order-how-john-gould-dined-out-on-the-birds-of-australia
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