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Definition of muttonbirding in English: muttonbirdingnounˈmʌt(ə)nˌbəːdɪŋ mass nounAustralian, NZ The activity of catching mutton birds for food or sale. commercial muttonbirding persists today because of financial need Example sentencesExamples - Beware if you're mutton birding—but of course, you have to have a permit to do that.
- Meat was supplemented at mutton-birding time and goats were kept by some families in addition to their quota of sheep and cattle.
- Pitt Island is large enough to be farmed and there are a number of small islands, some of which are mutton birding islands, and some home to endangered bird species.
- In the South Island there are arrangements for a particular customary right on the Crown's Titi Islands, the mutton birding islands, that is a long established customary right.
- This was a reference to the importance of mutton-birding to their traditional way of life, especially on the islands off the Tasmanian coast.
- Maori on the muttonbirding islands used to drape the cool tuatara on their stomachs to help them cool down.
- The insider story on muttonbirding, film footage of 1950s–70s rural Southland life, a potentially knee-deep walk retracing the footsteps of pioneers, and a celebration of boot-making feature among the activities for the first Southland Heritage Month
- Changes in the process of muttonbirding reflect those in muttonbirders themselves.
- Eight people drowned when the Easy Rider was hit by a rogue wave and sank during a muttonbirding trip to the Titi Islands.
- The school year on Flinders Island was scheduled around the muttonbirding season so that the children could go with their families to the offshore birding islands.
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