<P> Ortolan hunting was banned in France in 1999 , but the law was poorly enforced and it is thought that up to 50,000 ortolans were killed each year during the autumn migration : mostly birds from breeding grounds in Finland and the Baltic area . According to France 's League for the Protection of Birds , France 's ortolan population fell 30 % between 1997 and 2007 . In 2007 , the French government vowed to strictly enforce some existing rules about banning the practice , with the maximum fine set at € 6,000 ( £ 4,800 , $6,728 ) . Killing and cooking ortolans is banned across the EU . In 2007 , the pressure from France 's League for Protection of Birds and from the European Union resulted in the French government promising to enforce the EU directive protecting the ortolan . After several years of active citizen watch revealing little if any change in the field situation , the local representative of the government repeated this statement in 2016 . </P>
<P> Ortolan hunting was banned in France in 1999 , but the law was poorly enforced and it is thought that up to 50,000 ortolans were killed each year during the autumn migration : mostly birds from breeding grounds in Finland and the Baltic area . According to France 's League for the Protection of Birds , France 's ortolan population fell 30 % between 1997 and 2007 . In 2007 , the French government vowed to strictly enforce some existing rules about banning the practice , with the maximum fine set at € 6,000 ( £ 4,800 , $6,728 ) . Killing and cooking ortolans is banned across the EU . In 2007 , the pressure from France 's League for Protection of Birds and from the European Union resulted in the French government promising to enforce the EU directive protecting the ortolan . After several years of active citizen watch revealing little if any change in the field situation , the local representative of the government repeated this statement in 2016 . </P>
bird that is illegal to eat in france
bird that is illegal to eat in france
Ortolan
Ortolan