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great bustard
noun
- a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
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Clocking in at around 35 pounds, the great bustard is often referred to as the âflying fortress,â Bird says, because itâs the heaviest flying bird.
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The great bustard has been reintroduced to Salisbury Plain.
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David Waters, from the GBG, said if it was a "reasonable year" it would be the first "new great bustard population" to be established "anywhere in the world."
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This is the first time great bustard eggs have been moved over such distances Six great bustard eggs flown over from Russia have been hatched in Wiltshire.
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Bitterns used to boom and breed in the bog, and once, though only once, a great bustard was shot.
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