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(I wonder, did they not hunt ducks in England?)
Or is it that the collective we call ducks, they had names for-- I know the names of some game birds-- but many birds where eaten--
perhaps hunters went hunting for canvas backs, or mallards, or eiders or (okay, i reached my limit on duck names-) but what about other water fowl-- in England swans are protected game, but what about pelicans--(who's beaks can hold more than their bellys can?) or cormorants?
I don't know enough about varieties of water fowl, or hunting to know hunters if one went out for mallards-- and what other birds where hunted. -- or where they domesticated fairly early one--like geese?
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English waterfowl
Not a word question, but maybe our English colleagues can give a reply: I have read that swans in the UK are protected, as all swans are the property of the monarch. True?
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Follow google to Swan Upping. Swan Upping is not, as the name may imply, some ancient bestial (are birds beasts?) practice, but the practice of catching and counting the Swans with marked beaks, owned by specific guilds, and those with unmarked beaks which are owned by the Monarch. Also of course the cygnets belong to the marked parents have their beaks marked. Thinking about it, this refers to the Thames - I think some of the Oxbridge colleges own (and possibly eat) swans, and I think us lower classes [touch forelock emoticon] can own swans now as well.
No native pelicans in UK, as far as I know, but cormorants.
Indulge me a poem I know on cormorants, please, pretty please?
The common cormorant or shag, lays eggs inside a paper bag.
The reason you will see no doubt, is to keep the lightning out.
But what these unobservant birds, don't realise is that herds
of wandering bears may come with buns, and steal the bags to keep the crumbs.
Thank you.
Rod Ward
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Indulge me a poem I know on cormorants, please, pretty please?
No problem, Sweetie! :-)
We have cormorants here. I'll have to look for their nests.
Interestingly, as far inland as Louisville is, we also have a few seagulls, and just before Christmas I could have sworn I saw a pelican flying along. (That's when the guy behind me crashed my car.)
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all we have here is coots and loons
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I have heard this applied to sheep as well
"fishes" to sheep? [harharicon]
I thought fishes was fish whether cod or not...?
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"all we have here is coots and loons"
But what kinds of birds?
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Rod, thanks much for the pointer. Most interesting. I suppose that that silly girl who wore that frightful dress at the Oscars show would have been prosecuted in England? She should have been, for wearing such a monstrosity. On top of that (as my father-in-law used to say) she can't sing worth a damn. And besides that (as I say) she has ugly legs.
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Maybe from your window IP, but NY is part of the great fly by for a lot of migrating birds-- and birders all over the country come to Centeral Park and are blown away by the variety of birds-
and those of use in the outer boros-- we get lots of birds-- I'm on the north shore (LI sound) but the Great Bay at Jamaica has thousands of wonderful species-- and did you read the article in the New Yorker about the problems being caused by tropical parrots-- who now have made their home in Brooklyn-- and are extreme bored-- and like bored teen agers-- commit crimes of petty vandalism? teens tend to do graffiti, parrots pull apart cable connects-- and interfere with telephone and cable service!
and as for Loons-- i have never seen one in NY!
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fishes - cod
But if one kind of fish beats another, is that codswallop?
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