DUBIOUS DELICACY
This handout photo taken on November 1, 2012 and received by AFP on June 9, 2015 from conservation group BirdLife International shows yellow-breasted buntings from a charge of 1600 that were confiscated at a trapping site in Foshan, in China’s Guangdong province. AFP PHOTO
This handout photo taken on November 1, 2012 and received by AFP on June 9, 2015 from conservation group BirdLife International shows yellow-breasted buntings from a charge of 1600 that were confiscated at a trapping site in Foshan, in China’s Guangdong province. AFP PHOTO
BEIJING: A bird that was once one of the most abundant in Europe and Asia is being hunted to near extinction because of Chinese eating habits, according to a study published Tuesday.