great bustard
Americannoun
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The great bustard has been reintroduced to Salisbury Plain.
From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2017
Walsingham, Lord, and his tenantry, 226; shooting feats by, 225, 393; elected High Steward of Cambridge University, 421; re-introduction of the great bustard, 511.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
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.
Old German works make much mention of the use of the Iceland falcon for taking the great bustard, a flight scarcely alluded to by English writers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
It is worth while to cross over here to the other side of the gallery and see the great bustard, with his wonderful curving white feathers.
From The Children's Book of London by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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