From the Cyprus Mail on Sunday: 30 protected wild birds were found by Larnaca police and game officials in two restaurants. Apparently restaurants frequently offer songbirds as delicacies in spite of their being protected. Either more upscale restaurants than we frequent or offered discreetly to local afficionados. Fortunately for us. Though in China there seemed to be no bird too small or delicate to appear on the plate, and in Vietnam one restaurant we visited in Hanoi had a menu that looked like a list of endangered species.
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