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The birds are often either pickled or poached for a Cypriot "delicacy" called ambelopoulia.
Ambelopoulia: Millions Of Songbirds Illegally Poached And Pickled For Cypriot 'Delicacy' 2010
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The birds are often either pickled or poached for a Cypriot "delicacy" called ambelopoulia.
Ambelopoulia: Millions Of Songbirds Illegally Poached And Pickled For Cypriot 'Delicacy' 2010
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While Takis and Demetrios and I waited for the dozen ambelopoulia that were coming, we argued about who was going to eat them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In the room's harsh light, the ambelopoulia looked like a dozen little gleaming yellowish-gray turds.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"Our ideal would be to find a well-known personality to come out and say, 'I don't eat ambelopoulia, it's wrong,' " the director of BirdLife Cyprus, Clairie Papazoglou, said to me.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Trapping ambelopoulia used to be one of the few ways people around here could make a good living.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Outside, by the edge of the restaurant parking lot, near some bushes in which I'd earlier heard ambelopoulia singing, I knelt down and scraped a hole in the dirt with my fingers.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In the past few years, however, with Cyprus now comfortably ensconced in the E.U., signs advertising illicit ambelopoulia have begun to reappear in restaurants, and the number of active trapping sites is rising.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In the past few years, however, with Cyprus now comfortably ensconced in the E.U., signs advertising illicit ambelopoulia have begun to reappear in restaurants, and the number of active trapping sites is rising.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Opinion polls show that, while most Cypriots disapprove of bird trapping, most also don't think it's a serious issue, and that many enjoy eating ambelopoulia.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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