Potential new game bird?

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#1 Post by **Christel** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:56 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-12218959

Has anyone ever eaten one? What was it like?

barney57 · #2 Post by **barney57** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:56 pm

christel wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-12218959

Has anyone ever eaten one? What was it like?

Theres a Pub on the edge of the training area on Salisbury Plain called the Bustard,, been in there a few times...

#3 Post by **dromia** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:01 pm

I have a pal and his surname is Bustard.

#4 Post by **Mike357** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:05 pm

If there on Salisbury Plain they will have probably been eaten by druids, soldiers or blown to bits by tanks.

What size shot would you need in your 12 bore for one of those bad boys?

Robin128 · #5 Post by **Robin128** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:29 pm

Wales is full of them.

Never herad of the pill.

#6 Post by **ovenpaa** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:58 pm

Mike357 wrote:What size shot would you need in your 12 bore for one of those bad boys?

Hmm.. well on the grounds it is like a flying donkey something large would be needed.

A Bofors springs to mind...

zzr1100 · #7 Post by **zzr1100** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:48 pm

goalkeeper CIWS ?

25Pdr · #8 Post by **25Pdr** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:51 am

barney57 wrote:
christel wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-12218959

Has anyone ever eaten one? What was it like?

Theres a Pub on the edge of the training area on Salisbury Plain called the Bustard,, been in there a few times...

Me too....Only had egg and chips I'm afraid. :)

#9 Post by **Chapuis** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:03 am

I don't know why it is in the news because there have been several attempts over the last 30 years to reintroduce the bustard to Salisbury plain. On each occasion they have failed to breed or foxes have taken the chicks in the nest and the birds have just died out again.

#10 Post by **Christel** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:23 pm

It is in the news again because the project has just been given a lot on money to continue the reintroduction of the birds.
Chicks were hatched last year with success and frankly I am all for trying to get them to breed successfully on Salisbury Plain because the natural habitat elsewhere in the world is getting smaller every day due to pollution and habitat fragmentation. Salisbury Plain is ideal for the birds, well they used to live there so that must mean something.

If the population is small then the chances of survival are small, foxes will take them etc. If we can introduce enough for the population to be viable then great, another asset in the UK wildlife.
I do not think biologically that it will change much nor be a threat for the already established wildlife, they have been here before.

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