I wish I lived back then... well no, I don't

[Nrg800]

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BUT LOOK AT THAT, ARE THEY NOT AMAZING BIRDS!!!

I'll calm down now... but yeah, you could Buy Brolgas for 8s, whatever that is... I think Shillings...

[GregH]

I guess that's why some of those waterfowl are now on the endangered species list but none of them have actually gone extinct unlike the paradise parrot or southern star and numberous small mammals. Ecological disruption due to changed landscape management and ecological disruption from introduced species since European settlement has been biggest problem not hunting or trapping. Life wasn't too bad if you belonged to the upper classes but I guess I wouldn't be in that cohort so no I don't think they were necesarily the good old days.

[mickw]

C'mon Greg, for us science nerds it'd be tops........for preparation, all we'd have to do is dust off our shootin' skills and learn a bit of bare-knuckle boxing.

[gomer]

there would be a few people about who would have ate alot of them.I have an Italian mate who was feed swans, waterfowl,sparrows and even koala as a youngin.

[GregH]

Koalas are OK if you can wean them off gum leaves. Knowing what I know now I don't think I could put a paradise parrot in my sights or a Thylacine or a pig-footed bandicoot or an eastern numbat and dare I mention the Tasmainan Aboriginals. It's a sad history. Did any one read the super preditor piece on the ABC site yesterday?

[Tiaris]

I know a few people around my way who have eaten (& still occasionally eat) plenty of Wonga, Brown & Topknot pigeons as well as their fair share of scrub turkeys.

[mickw]

I'll take your Brush Turkey Tiaris and raise you a Lyrebird..... .....


Hey Greg I was more thinking about the wonderful stuff we would see (not necessarily shoot), like Paradise Parrots and Southern Star Finches at Gunnedah, ......shooting & bare knuckle fighting would be more a necessity for self defence rather than pillage

[finchbreeder]

Hindsight is such a loverly thing. If they had it back then we would have had more of these birds bred to preserve and pass down as investments in the future. A Tardis would be such a useful thing to have.
LML

[Jayburd]

one WITH a chameleon circuit!!

[iaos]

I have heard of someone recently consuming a Bustard

Probably makes a change from their usual meat of camel.