Sing a Song of Sixpence?

Cyprus restaurants serve a local dish, ambelopoulia, that includes pickled or boiled songbirds. A disturbing increase in the illegal trapping and killing of songbirds on that island has been noted (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/06/more-than-400000-songbirds-killed-by-organised-in-cyprus). In Cyprus, the songbirds (including House sparrows and robins) are lured, by recordings, to locations, with 'mist' nets or where the trees have glue-covered branches. The 'catch' is then sold, on the 'black market', to participating restaurants. A recent study found that circa 435,000 songbirds were killed, in this way, in Autumn (Fall) 2023. After several years of declining numbers being taken, this represents a 90,000 increase on 2022. Ambelopoulia should be off the menu!