Giant flightless birds (the Cassowary is another favorite) are a reminder of that brief period between the disappearance of the dinosaurs and the expansion of mammals when birds topped the food chain and basically ruled the earth. Check out Terror Birds.
In the summer of 1997 my friend J, my family and I stayed for a couple of days at an Inn in the Columbia River Gorge. The guest package included a buffet dinner. We sat on the lawn watching the river as we picked at the plates of food on our laps. My father suggested that the species of meat we were eating was Emu.
You can get Emu carpaccio at 8 Mile Creek if you want to relive the days...
They're good for more than just eating.
Emu has been promoted as a beef alternative, but it's never really taken off (well, it is a flightless bird). The usual thing happened where there was a lot of hype, folks got suckered into Emu farming, and then lost their shirts.
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- alex 12-06-2001 2:59 pm
In the summer of 1997 my friend J, my family and I stayed for a couple of days at an Inn in the Columbia River Gorge. The guest package included a buffet dinner. We sat on the lawn watching the river as we picked at the plates of food on our laps. My father suggested that the species of meat we were eating was Emu.
- steve 12-07-2001 12:24 am [add a comment]
You can get Emu carpaccio at 8 Mile Creek if you want to relive the days...
- jim 12-07-2001 12:27 am [add a comment]
They're good for more than just eating.
- steve 12-07-2001 12:41 am [add a comment]
From George Herriman's Krazy Kat:
- tom moody 12-07-2001 12:58 am [add a comment]
Emu has been promoted as a beef alternative, but it's never really taken off (well, it is a flightless bird). The usual thing happened where there was a lot of hype, folks got suckered into Emu farming, and then lost their shirts.
- alex 12-07-2001 12:58 am [add a comment]
alex 100's of birds stopped by my backyard yesterday, many different kinds, later they left
going south??
linda said it happened last saturday too....
- Skinny 12-07-2001 8:08 pm [add a comment]
What birds were they? Most songbirds have already gone south, but there are still flocks around, mostly Grackles and Starlings. Some are migrants going south, while some birds that spend the summer north of us move only so far, and spend the winter here. Others are more erratic, and wander in search of food where they can get it. This year already looks to be "irruptive", with various finches that usually winter in northern conifer forest being forced south by seed failure or drought or who-knows-what. Birders down here love it when that happens, but it's not so good for the birds. Get some binoculars and a field guide, and figure out what you're looking at; even flocks of uninspiring birds often include a few unusual species.
- alex 12-07-2001 9:27 pm [add a comment]