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What (who) is mutton bird - definition
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Mutton bird; Muttonbirds; Mutton-bird; Muttonbird (disambiguation)
mutton bird
¦ noun a shearwater or petrel of the southern oceans. [Puffinus tenuirostris and other species.]
Origin
C19: because when cooked, the flesh of some species resembles mutton in flavour.
Muttonbird
Muttonbird or mutton bird may refer to species of petrel, especially shearwaters, whose young are harvested for food and other uses before they fledge in Australia and New Zealand. The English term "muttonbird" originally emerged among settlers on Norfolk Island as the strong taste and fattiness of these birds' meat was likened to mutton.
Peter Mutton
ENGLISH LAWYER AND POLITICIAN
Mutton, Peter
Sir Peter Mutton (1565 – 4 November 1637) was a Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1604 and 1624.
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Muttonbird
Muttonbird or mutton bird may refer to species of petrel, especially shearwaters, whose young are harvested for food and other uses before they fledge in Australia and New Zealand. The English term "muttonbird" originally emerged among settlers on Norfolk Island as the strong taste and fattiness of these birds' meat was likened to mutton. The Māori name for the birds, tītī, is also widely used in New Zealand.
Examples of use of mutton bird
1. The group of mainly family members was returning from small islands south of New Zealand known as the Mutton Bird Islands, where indigenous Maori hunt the sooty shearwater migratory sea bird _ a local delicacy.