How To Use Great bustard In A Sentence
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Interwoven with the tale of the group sighting the great bustard is a paean to the kind of childhood that has all but disappeared, and a study of a father-and-son relationship of both huge emotional distance and tender intimacy.
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As well as early fossils, there are displays of stuffed animals and birds, including a male and female Great Bustard.
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Great bustard ( Otis tarda ) is listed as a first - rating protected bird in China and CITES II.
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As villagers at Market Lavington were told when Karen Ray, another member of the Great Bustard team, visited their annual parish meeting last week, bustards are difficult to breed.
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Seemingly invisible on our horses we rode amongst azure-winged magpies, great bustard, hoopoes and a hundred other species of birds.
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Birds include species of swan goose Anser cygnoides, crested honey buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus, black kite Milvus migrans, hawk owl Sunia ulula, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus, hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus and great bustard Otis tarda.
Lake Baikal Basin, Russian Federation
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Until the end of the 18th century, Great Bustards were widely distributed in England on open chalk downland, grassy heaths and agricultural land.
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It is an important breeding ground for little cormorants Phalacrocorax pygmaeus (15 pairs), night heron Nycticorax nycticorax (50-150 pairs), squacco heron Ardeola rallioides (60 pairs), little bittern Ixobrychus minutus (20 pairs), glossy ibis Plegadis falcinellus (5 pairs), white spoonbill Platalea leucorodia (6-20 pairs), corncrake Crex crex (V), great bustard Otis tarda and five other heron species with some 1,000 nests.
Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria
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And in Austria there is a well-funded project to try to prevent one of the world's most spectacular birds, the great bustard, from dying out.
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Great bustards weigh rather more than quail, and when the first hunter was concussed the reaction was one of panic, and swift running for shelter.
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The great bustard, the world's heaviest flying bird, was widely distributed in England until the end of the 18th century.
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A total of 28 orphaned Great Bustard chicks were flown to the UK from Russia in the autumn, and released into the wild on Salisbury Plain.
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They are now feeding themselves, but until recently they had to be hand fed and, to prevent them ‘imprinting’ on their human minders, they were being fed by a glove puppet in the shape of a mother Great Bustard.
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By the mid 19th century the great bustard was extinct in Britain.
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The loss of two Great Bustards to fox attack has not unduly concerned the band of conservationists who are trying to reintroduce the species to Salisbury Plain.
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A visitor centre is being planned for the Great Bustard Project in the Everleigh area and more details will be published when plans are more definite.
