what is a alouette

[mightybuck]

I want to know what a Alouette is?

wikipedia says
" Alouette" is a popular Canadian children's song about plucking the feathers off a skylark - a small bird"

Is an alouette then a childrens song or a small bird that gets its feathes plucked off?

[Coast Mountain Lion]

From wikipedia en francais:

"Le terme alouette est le nom vernaculaire donné à certains oiseaux passériformes de la famille des alaudidés."

Or, roughly:
The term alouette is the common name given to certain passerine birds (songbirds) of the family alaluidae (larks).

So alouette is French for lark, essentially. Now you know why they're sometimes referred to as The Larks.

[TheLionKing]

What is it about sports teams and birds ? You have the falcons, blue jays, orioles.

[Bosco]

What is it about sports teams and birds ? You have the falcons, blue jays, orioles.

Also, the Eagles (Philadelphia), Thrashers and Hawks (Atlanta).

[Tighthead]

Seahawks, Cardinals, Ravens, Thunderbirds, Owls...

[Coast Mountain Lion]

Don't forget Penguins.

[TheLionKing]

Don't forget Penguins.

The flightless birds. I'm waiting for a franchise to call their team The Turkeys

[Kamloops Lion]

Actually, an Alouette is not a lark or any other bird.
Real CFL fans know it is French for Roughriders.

[CartWheelFan]

Don't forget Penguins.

The flightless birds. I'm waiting for a franchise to call their team The Turkeys

How about the Hamilton Turkeys? :lol:

[Coast Mountain Lion]

Don't forget Penguins.

The flightless birds. I'm waiting for a franchise to call their team The Turkeys

Well there is Max Klinger's favourite team, the Toledo Mud Hens.
Toronto sportswriter Dick Beddoes called the Blue Jays the Toronto Turkeys in their early days of being a crappy expansion team (a couple of years after he called the WHA Toronto Toros the Toronto Lawn Mowers)

As a turkeyish aside, for those who haven't seen the latest Sarah Palin video making the rounds:
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/134739 (there are two videos - scroll down)
Giving a pardon to a turkey and thus saving it from a Thanksgiving table; apparently something that Bush started which doesn't surprise me. And for someone who supposedly went out and shot herself her own moose she seems pretty squeamish actually walking around the enclosure amongst the birds (though being dressed in those heels and nylons isn't the best way to hang around a farm). But the best part of it is the activity in the background while she's doing an interview.

[Tighthead]

The turkey pardon thing goes way, way back.

[TheLionKing]

But the best part of it is the activity in the background while she's doing an interview.

What exactly is the guy doing to the turkey ?

[Rammer]

I want to know what a Alouette is?

wikipedia says
" Alouette" is a popular Canadian children's song about plucking the feathers off a skylark - a small bird"

Is an alouette then a childrens song or a small bird that gets its feathes plucked off?

All I know is that an Allouette is an almost guaranteed GC, should you face them. Ask the BC Lions 2006, 2000, and of course their predecessor the Stallions of 1994.

[Coast Mountain Lion]

But the best part of it is the activity in the background while she's doing an interview.

What exactly is the guy doing to the turkey ?

The bird is stuffed head-first into the cone, which holds the body steady, and while the head is protruding from the hole at the tip of the cone he cuts the head off. Apparently it takes quite a while for all the blood to drain into that big red tub.

[Lions4ever]

Well there is Max Klinger's favourite team, the Toledo Mud Hens.

What about the Fightin' Blue Hens of Delaware?