Definitionn. brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy
Last update: October 13, 2015
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Amongst these may be mentioned the blue-throated warbler, ortolan bunting, Lapland bunting, shore lark, red-throated pipit, tree warbler, and many others. [Please select]
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Boblincoln no more, he is the reedbird now, the much-sought-for tidbit of Pennsylvanian epicures, the rival in unlucky fame of the ortolan. [Please select]
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The ortolan is a small bird, abundant in southern Europe, Cyprus, and Japan. [Please select]
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BOBOLINK (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) Blackbird family Called also:REEDBIRD; MAYBIRD; MEADOW-BIRD; AMERICAN ORTOLAN; BUTTER-BIRD; SKUNK BLACKBIRD Length -- 7 inches. [Please select]
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Its food is rather nasty--water-slugs and the like,--but it is itself as fat as an ortolan, "almost melts in the _hand_." [Please select]
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Instead of these, the contents proved to be a bird--and only one--a chick recently hatched, about the size of a squab-pigeon, and fat as a fed ortolan. [Please select]
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