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OK, a quick check of the New Zealand Wildlife Act (compliments of the Department of Conservation) reveals all introduced British songbirds are classed as "SCHEDULE 5: WILDLIFE NOT PROTECTED". That includes Starling, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Skylark, Sparrow (both house and hedge variety), Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Redpoll and Yellow hammer.
All can be legally harvested here and parts thereof be use in what any manner you see fit........ but can I send it overseas?

Donald, thanks for elaborating...I love the fine distictions gents like Skues brought to the fly dressing business.

Otherwise, I didn't mean to lump even your blackbirds in with those of the Sassenachs, unless of course they be Campbell's. Speaking of which, I was delighted to see scenes of Glen Coe in the latest Bond flick--definitely want to get back up that way this summer.

CB,
These flies are superb. The naming issues are equally interesting.

Thanks for sharing them, and for the nice photographs. They look alive.

Lance

The naming issues are equally interesting.

Very glad you like them, it's a fun material.

At any rate, Donald's point about "British" vs. "English" is well taken, though one thing that occurred to me is that I hardly ever hear "British" used as a modifier of objects in the natural world (compared to, say, the American bald eagle, the American) bison, etc.) Welsh pony, Scotch pine, English bulldog sound much more natural to me than "British blackbird" even if the latter has been correct since 1707.

I love the colors!

Donald Nicolson wrote:I actually prefer European Blackbird which is also the national bird of Sweden.
The bulldog is sometimes referred as the British bulldog for journalistic reasons here in the UK.
About the only people who have anything good to say about the poor old starling are fly dressers.

And some of what we have to say isn't printable.

Kirk