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Meanings of Otis tarda in English

Largest European land bird.

        Synonyms
        Examples for "great bustard"
        Examples for "great bustard"
        1
        The great bustard, the crane, and bittern have been driven away by cultivation.
        The Life of the Fields
        2
        The great bustard has been reintroduced to Salisbury Plain.
        The Guardian
        3
        I saw hens and ducks, turkeys and even a pair of great bustard, their giant wings docked.
        Sovereign
        4
        A short time later, a squawk and a whir of wings preceded the sudden appearance of a great bustard taking to the air.
        The Plains of Passage
        5
        Visiting Salisbury Museum, I found myself eyeballing the last great bustard in Victorian England, shot down by a bird-scarer with a marble in 1871.
        The Guardian