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

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

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

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)

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