Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
arty for the Animals
extict animals
Marianne Thieme
menu
PvdD
restaurant
shooting birds
starling
State Secretary Sharon Dijksma
Vogelbescherming
Wednesday, 7 August 2013 - 06:39
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Starling For Dinner

Restaurant Pronckheer in Cothen, Utrecht, serves already for a while starling, who are shot in the orchard of the neighbors. Arjan Smit, owner of the restaurant, is not going to stop that, despite an angry letter from the Organisation for Protection of Birds (Vogelbescherming). The province of Utrecht is now checking if it is actually allowed to prepare starling and Party for the Animals (PvdD) MP and party leader Marianne Thieme has asked questions in the House on Tuesday to State Secretary Sharon Dijksma of Economic Affairs. The Pronckheer serves mostly local products, such as goose and game from the floodplains and vegetables and herbs from the garden. To eat starling is not uncommon in southern European countries. Smit serves starlings fried or in a salad. Permit The owner of the orchard has a shooting permit for starlings. Thieme wants to know now, if the sole purpose for the permit is damage control, or that "the supply of a restaurant" also falls under the authorization rules. According to her, the starling is a protected species. The Pronckheer should have an exemption for keeping a protected species. The starling is in Netherlands not on the so-called red list of endangered species. The number of starlings is however decreasing rapidly in recent years. According to the Vogelbescherming this is due to intensive agriculture and because there are more birds of prey like hawks and sparrow hawks.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • CEO: Air France-KLM takes planet health very seriously
  • Cable car over Amsterdam IJ River could depart from Westerpark area metro station
  • Rotterdam's public transport company RET facing serious financial trouble
  • Lifeguards warn water still too cold for long swims despite rising temperatures
  • Dutch central bank leader Knot concerned after employees win substantial wage increases
  • PM Rutte acknowledges making mistakes with Groningen gas extraction

Top stories

  • Investigators find €80 million in cocaine at Dutch ports
  • Appeal denied: Joran van der Sloot temporarily extradited to U.S. tomorrow
  • Amsterdam to ban polluting traffic in large parts of the city from 2025
  • Hundreds of young Dutch people at risk of forced marriage during summer holiday
  • Dutch PM says blowing up Ukraine’s dam is a war crime
  • Grants will definitely replace student loan system this year; Applications start soon

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content