great bustard

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).

Example Sentences

Clocking in at around 35 pounds, the great bustard is often referred to as the “flying fortress,” Bird says, because it’s 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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