Largest European land bird.
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Examples for "great bustard "
Examples for "great bustard "
1 The great bustard , the crane, and bittern have been driven away by cultivation.
2 The great bustard has been reintroduced to Salisbury Plain.
3 I saw hens and ducks, turkeys and even a pair of great bustard , their giant wings docked.
4 A short time later, a squawk and a whir of wings preceded the sudden appearance of a great bustard taking to the air.
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.
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