I can also tell you that even hawk makes a palatable meal. The Mayan indians I had working for me in the jungle in Belize killed everything that moved, which was pretty irritating if it was something they wouldn't eat. One day they shot a hawk so I had my cook make a soup of it for breakfast. The guys wouldn't touch it, of course, but I did and it was tasty enough. The only other thing they wouldn't eat was snakes, not even the meaty 7ft Fer de lance I brought in one day. To them, every snake was poisonous. Other than these anomalies, we pretty much ate everything else that moved - little jungle deer, armadillos, river otter, parrots, McCaw, Gibnut(a nutria clone with chipmunk markings), grouse we took with sling shots and smallish turkey-like birds , wild pigs, you name it. We would have eaten tapir but they were too big since we were on the move daily.
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