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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Example Sentences

The great bustard has been reintroduced to Salisbury Plain.

From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2017

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 Sterndale, Robert Armitage

The great bustard, the crane, and bittern have been driven away by cultivation.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

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 Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Then from the heather almost under our feet rose a great bustard that ran down wind with outstretched wings before us, seeking the lonelier country.

From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)