@article{Anderson_2016, title={Birds of the Mongol Empire}, volume={7}, url={https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/715}, DOI={10.14237/ebl.7.1.2016.715}, abstractNote={The Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire the world has ever known, had, among other things, a goodly number of falconers, poultry raisers, birdcatchers, cooks, and other experts on various aspects of birding. We have records of this, largely in the <em>Yinshan Zhengyao</em>, the court nutrition manual of the Mongol empire in China (the Yuan Dynasty). It discusses in some detail 22 bird taxa, from swans to chickens. The <em>Huihui Yaofang</em&gt;, a medical encyclopedia, lists ten taxa used medicinally. Marco Polo also made notes on Mongol bird use. There are a few other records. This allows us to draw conclusions about Mongol ornithology, which apparently was sophisticated and detailed.}, number={1}, journal={Ethnobiology Letters}, author={Anderson, Eugene N.}, year={2016}, month={Sep.}, pages={67–73} }