What is "ortolan bunting"

n. brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy [syn: ortolan, Emberiza hortulana]

The ortolan, or ortolan bunting (Emberiza hortulana) is a bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a passerine family now separated by most modern scholars from the finches, Fringillidae. The name ortolan is French, from the Latin hortulanus, the gardener bird, (from hortus, a garden).

In September 2007, the French government announced its intent to enforce long ignored laws protecting the bird.