they don't taste like chicken
no matter how you pronounce plover

August 4, 2006

 

 

 

 

This Provincetown Banner article debunks some popular piping plover myths. The folks 'round the local bait and tackle must be disappointed. It's not piping plovers they eat in South America. And the plover species that do get eaten allegedly taste like starlings. The researcher has tasted starlings? Eeeewww!

Apparently all they talk about on Cape Cod is piping plovers and they don't even know how to pronounce plover! The Cape Codder answers the long versus short o in plover question for an Orleans 7th grader.

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