great bustard
Americannoun
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The great bustard has been reintroduced to Salisbury Plain.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2017
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
Its great bustard, once our greatest bird—even greater than the golden and sea eagles and the "giant crane" with its "trumpet sound" once heard in the land—is now but a memory.
From A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
I heard a great noise one day outside my room and found Master "Pips," attacking a fine male specimen I had of the great bustard, Eupodotis Edwardsii, and had just seized it by the throat.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
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 A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
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