How To Use Bustard In A Sentence
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At Ngarkat and Karte conservation parks, you can see everything from ring-necked parrots, honeyeaters and white-winged choughs, to Australian bustards, yellow-tailed black cockatoos and sometimes even a rare Mallee emu-wren or the Mallee ningaui.
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The trail isn't supposed to be a wildlife safari, but we sight many kudu, oryx, baboons and mountain zebra, and a huge Kori Bustard taking to the air.
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Interwoven with the tale of the group sighting the great bustard is a paean to the kind of childhood that has all but disappeared, and a study of a father-and-son relationship of both huge emotional distance and tender intimacy.
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As well as early fossils, there are displays of stuffed animals and birds, including a male and female Great Bustard.
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Other species, such as little bustard (Otis tetrax), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), and squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides) use it as breeding grounds.
Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
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This kind of hunting, in which the falcons are trained to attack much larger birds, is one reason bustards are threatened throughout much of their range.
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In a study of osteological and soft-tissue characters, Mayr & Clarke (2003) also found gruiforms to be polyphyletic: rails, trumpeters and cranes (referred to from hereon as the ‘gruiform core’) were one of the most basal groups within Neoaves, bustards were without close relatives, and seriemas formed a clade with … .. hoatzins.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin
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The most exciting bird of the flight was a houbara bustard flying up from the dry desert scrub showing large white patches on its wings.
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Great bustard ( Otis tarda ) is listed as a first - rating protected bird in China and CITES II.
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As villagers at Market Lavington were told when Karen Ray, another member of the Great Bustard team, visited their annual parish meeting last week, bustards are difficult to breed.
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The trail isn't supposed to be a wildlife safari, but we sight many kudu, oryx, baboons and mountain zebra, and a huge Kori Bustard taking to the air.
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Cranes and their relatives belong to an old and wide-ranging group of birds that includes rails, coots, sungrebes, kagu, sunbitterns, roatelos, buttonquail, cranes, limpkins, trumpeters, seriemas, and bustards.
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Seemingly invisible on our horses we rode amongst azure-winged magpies, great bustard, hoopoes and a hundred other species of birds.
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That is why emus have many children but cannot fly and why bustards (brush turkeys) can fly but only have two offspring each season.
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Hi, Jack you bustard, where have you been?
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Apart from the globally-extinct great auk, the bustard is the only bird known to have bred in Britain that hasn't done so in recent times.
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Depending on how well the young bustards do when released to the wild, more chicks may well be brought over next year.
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Birds include species of swan goose Anser cygnoides, crested honey buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus, black kite Milvus migrans, hawk owl Sunia ulula, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus, hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus and great bustard Otis tarda.
Lake Baikal Basin, Russian Federation
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Foxes are one of the bustard's main enemies and experts are experimenting with ways of keeping the chicks away, including squirting them with water pistols if they get too close to their predators.
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Bustards are hunted for food and sport, as are the aoudads.
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Until the end of the 18th century, Great Bustards were widely distributed in England on open chalk downland, grassy heaths and agricultural land.
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It is an important breeding ground for little cormorants Phalacrocorax pygmaeus (15 pairs), night heron Nycticorax nycticorax (50-150 pairs), squacco heron Ardeola rallioides (60 pairs), little bittern Ixobrychus minutus (20 pairs), glossy ibis Plegadis falcinellus (5 pairs), white spoonbill Platalea leucorodia (6-20 pairs), corncrake Crex crex (V), great bustard Otis tarda and five other heron species with some 1,000 nests.
Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria
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For example, the grasslands of southern Andhra Pradesh support a good population of the Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra).
Deccan thorn scrub forests
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The male bustards, which already weigh more than 5kg, were flying into the net roof with such force that it acted like a trampoline and threw them back to the ground.
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Despite these trapping efforts, more than half the bustards released were quickly killed by predators - three-quarters of these by red foxes.
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It was full of game: teeming with pheasants, marmot, jerboas, and giant fluffy bustards which could hardly fly.
KARA KUSH
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We used these two traits to investigate the relationship between social dominance and migratory behavior among male bustards.
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The bustard is a pelican-like bird that was completely eliminated from the British Isles by hunters, and only exists in those parts of Europe, like Germany and Hungary, where blood sport had been mainly confined to killing Jews, Gypsies, and the disabled.
Sherman Yellen: The Pelican and Me
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Most are small families of uncertain relationships including such groups as limpkins, sungrebes, sunbitterns, and bustards.
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And in Austria there is a well-funded project to try to prevent one of the world's most spectacular birds, the great bustard, from dying out.
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Today Mr Hussey said everyone at the hotel was hopeful of seeing the bustard returned as the centrepiece of the garden.
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At the National Wildlife Research Center in Taif, female bustards are artificially inseminated and the chicks are hand-raised and then released.
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Great bustards weigh rather more than quail, and when the first hunter was concussed the reaction was one of panic, and swift running for shelter.
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In 1824 Gould set up his taxidermy business in London and became the first taxidermist to enjoy royal patronage when he stuffed a Thick Knee'd Bustard for King George IV.
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The great bustard, the world's heaviest flying bird, was widely distributed in England until the end of the 18th century.
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According to their description, they are as large as a bustard, which is a kind of goose, having the neck longer and twice as large as those with us.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02
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Ms Ray, who drove the hire van with the crates containing the bustard chicks, said: ‘We are all over the moon.’
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Tell them we'll get the bustard, we know he makes roadside bombs, we even know where he gets his staff ... we'll get him.
Fatemeh Keshavarz: Giggling in Fallujah
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There were innumerable pigeons and a few Floricans (a kind of bustard -- considered the best eating game -- bird in India).
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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This area is home of no less than seven of Africa's most amazing animals: the African elephant, the lion, giraffe, the baobab tree, the eland, the ostrich, and the koori bustard.
Edward Lozzi: Obama and Clinton Fight International Parental Kidnappings
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The savanna landscape supports a small antelope species called Grimm's duiker, side striped jackals, and rare birds including Denham's bustard.
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In a study of osteological and soft-tissue characters, Mayr & Clarke (2003) also found gruiforms to be polyphyletic: rails, trumpeters and cranes (referred to from hereon as the ‘gruiform core’) were one of the most basal groups within Neoaves, bustards were without close relatives, and seriemas formed a clade with … .. hoatzins.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin
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As they grow in confidence, the bustards will be encouraged to venture on to Salisbury Plain.
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A kind of bustard, with a very strong bill, and not larger than a hen, was numerous at Bountiful Island; and appeared to subsist upon the young turtle.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
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We got him!" a head popped in and shouted "the bustard was trying to get away from the rooftop, we got him.
Fatemeh Keshavarz: Giggling in Fallujah
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The sanctuary is also inhabited by other endangered species, including the Arabian gazelle and bustard.
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A total of 28 orphaned Great Bustard chicks were flown to the UK from Russia in the autumn, and released into the wild on Salisbury Plain.
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The savanna landscape supports a small antelope species called Grimm's duiker, side striped jackals, and rare birds including Denham's bustard.
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In a study of osteological and soft-tissue characters, Mayr & Clarke (2003) also found gruiforms to be polyphyletic: rails, trumpeters and cranes (referred to from hereon as the ‘gruiform core’) were one of the most basal groups within Neoaves, bustards were without close relatives, and seriemas formed a clade with … .. hoatzins.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin
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They are now feeding themselves, but until recently they had to be hand fed and, to prevent them ‘imprinting’ on their human minders, they were being fed by a glove puppet in the shape of a mother Great Bustard.
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Then I guess you jet - sitting fancy free bustards need that kind of constancy splashy reassurance.
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There are substantial numbers of Nubian bustard, Neotis nuba, and eagle owl Bubo bubo.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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Houbara bustards chirp as we eat.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the mid 19th century the great bustard was extinct in Britain.
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Out of 28 bustards that arrived on the Plain last July, there are still ten out in the wild.
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Different gruiforms were found to belong to both groups; mesites, kagus and sunbitterns were metavians close to owlet nightjars, grebes and sandgrouse; seriemas and bustards were coronavians without close relatives; while the gruiform core was part of a coronavian clade that included divers, cuckoos, turacos, tubenosed seabirds, storks, herons, penguins and pelicans.
Archive 2006-11-01
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Cook remarked in his journal on the shoaly nature of the bay, the type of country, the natives' habits and lifestyle and the huge bustard bird which was shot for the evening meal.
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Dick and Grosvenor had already seen enough of the surrounding country during their two days 'foraging expedition to have come to the conclusion that conditions would now improve with every mile of progress, and this conclusion was fully borne out by their first day's experiences, the country gradually becoming more hilly and broken, with small watercourses occurring at steadily decreasing intervals, with more and richer grass at every mile of their progress, until by the end of the day they once more found themselves in a district that might fairly be termed fertile, while a few head of game -- bucks and a brace of paow (a kind of bustard) -- had been seen.
The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa
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Birdlife is good and include Augur buzzard, Denhams bustard, white-necked raven and purple crested lourie.
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The loss of two Great Bustards to fox attack has not unduly concerned the band of conservationists who are trying to reintroduce the species to Salisbury Plain.
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They are taught by their mothers or other bustards how to recognize and avoid foxes and other dangers.
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Or what about the fact that once upon a time the well-to-do liked to indulge in something called the Roti Sans Pareil, which involved playing Russian dolls with game birds – a hulking bustard on the outside, teeny tiny garden warbler at the very centre.
Food Britannia by Andrew Webb – review
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Enter the houbara bustard, with a name redolent of leather-jacketed young men gunning their motorcycles and a courtship display to match.
Wired Top Stories
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I confess to the herder that I don't really know what a houbara looks like, having only encountered the kori bustard of the savannah.
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Wildlife was plentiful, especially bustard which soared vertically into the air when disturbed, flying noisily in a wide circle until we were past.
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(FYI a bustard is a bird not what you may have thought!) +1 Good Comment?
H.R. 45 - Gun Licensing, Fines and Confiscation - SB 2099 This is information I received in the an email.
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Certain large-bodied flying birds, such as bustards, pelicans, and vultures, pneumatize virtually the entire skeleton, out to the tips of the wings.
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The are also important breeding colonies of birds in this area including the blue swallow, Denham's bustard, Njombe cisticola and Kipengere seedeater.
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A visitor centre is being planned for the Great Bustard Project in the Everleigh area and more details will be published when plans are more definite.
