great bustard
Americannoun
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The great bustard has been reintroduced to Salisbury Plain.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2017
The great bustard, the crane, and bittern have been driven away by cultivation.
From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard
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.
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
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)
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