great bustard

American  

noun

1. 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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great bustard

The great bustard has been reintroduced to Salisbury Plain.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2017

From there one can hunt the great bustard, and I had hoped to do so until I saw the animals that were to take us to the coast.

From Morocco by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)

The outarde, or little bustard, is often to be had at Wiltcher's, and it is the only place at which I have eaten the great bustard, whose flesh is very much like a turkey's.

From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)

Bitterns used to boom and breed in the bog, and once, though only once, a great bustard was shot.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous

As occasional visitors may be reckoned the wax-wing, golden oriole, cross-bill, hoopoe, white-tailed eagle, honey buzzard, ruff, puffin, great bustard, Iceland gull, glaucous gull, and Bewick's swan.

From Somerset by Wade, G. W.