Yes Ruth, but it's been said (here, e.g.) that vegetables, herbs and other consumables should be excluded from the native-flora for native-fauna rule, in order to limit food miles, etc.

So starling - not albatross nor bittern for the trad plucking of a cittern , thanks, S. And TL - it's a polymer plectrum for 10 WIRE strings you mention, yes?

"you're the one who seems to think it's VERY english to play the cittern (personally I find it a very boring instrument), so you figure out what bird (whatever that means)"...No, no - haven't you heard the tongue-twister, Beak?...

Peter Piper placed aside his pipes and settled with his cittern.