Word: belchenjagd
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...German sportsmen would trade a boatload of Belchen for a single Auerhahn (European grouse), a bird so wily that one stuffed carcass is often all a man can show for a lifetime of shooting (TIME, April 28). The duckbilled, chicken-bodied coots that the gunmen slaughter in their annual Belchenjagd (Belchen hunt) are worthless as trophies, and dead birds are usually given to the nearest garbage collector. Some hunters claim that a Belchen is edible-if it is marinated for two weeks in buttermilk and roasted with chestnuts...
...bombarded them with birdshot. So far, the hapless Belchen's only hope is fog. On both the Swiss and German sides of Lake Constance, Belchen hunting in the fog is prohibited: a stray shot might nick a hunter, and this would be considered bad form, even for a Belchenjagd...
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