bigpete wrote:For example,this is from the SA DEW site
on a glance youd think the black fellahs eat anything that moves with enthusiasim.
As you get past Katherine they are pretty keen on feral cats even, but they seem to have some well defined preferences, (no dogs and humans hahaha).
honestly though parrots seem to be less liked.
id hazard a guess and even say some might be uninterested if you offered them a bunch or theyed unenthusiasticly accept them. but for any type of reptile they go nuts, turtle, lizards, snakes ect..
bush turkey, doves and geese they are very fond of too. but brulga or parrots for example several have told me thats a "less popular option" .. irbis too.. although that probably all changes by region. they seem to like the animals with fats or oils in the meat for the most part- like a magpie goose for example. parrots i dont have that much juicy fat on them i guess, ive eaten afew and different species taste very different, i think it also depends on what theyve been eating as cockatoos have a habit of bindge eating plentiful food stuffs till theyer exhausted, so if they got into something funky it might spoil them, i found them to be good enough to eat. better than some gamebirds they like in europe anyway. early settlers made them into pies and there is afew 1800s cookbooks with them being used.
