A forest ranger, trekking through a remote campground area, caught a whiff of something burning in the distance. Farther along the trail he found an old hermit making his evening meal.

“What are you cooking?” asked the ranger.

“Peregrine falcon,” answered the hermit.

“Peregrine falcon!” the conservationist said, shocked. “You can't cook that! It's on the endangered species list.”

“How was I to know?” the hermit responded. “I haven't had contact with the outside world in ages.”

The ranger told the recluse he wouldn't report him this time, but he wasn't to cook peregrine falcon ever again. “By the way," he asked, “what does it taste like?”

“Well,” replied the hermit, “I'd say it's somewhere between a dodo bird and a whooping crane.”