(FYI a bustard is a bird not what you may have thought!) +1 Good Comment?. From Wordnik.com. [H.R. 45 - Gun Licensing, Fines and Confiscation - SB 2099 This is information I received in the an email.] Reference
In some areas great bustard can be found (Otis tarda). From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh upland] Reference
In Scythia there is found a bird as large as the great bustard. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
Quails, and young berry cream, &c. bustards, and bustard quails. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
An interesting account of the appearance of the great bustard in. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Threatened birds include the great bustard and the little bustard. From Wordnik.com. [Central Anatolian steppe] Reference
Saw a bustard in the midst of the sandhills which bear 340 degrees. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
Houboara bustard is one of the most endangered bird species in this region. From Wordnik.com. [Central Asian northern desert] Reference
And river horse, and bustard and sturgeon and honeyed dates stuffed with nuts. From Wordnik.com. [Joust]
The French call the hobara, a little bustard, poule de Carthage, or Carthage-fowl. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
There are substantial numbers of Nubian bustard, Neotis nuba, and eagle owl Bubo bubo. From Wordnik.com. [Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger] Reference
The protection of the oryx also enabled the ibex, idmi and houbara bustard to increase. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman] Reference
The bustard would have made a wonderful meal for all three of them, with plenty left over. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
The bustard (Tetrax tetrax) and stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) are still found in some areas. From Wordnik.com. [Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe] Reference
The Jidda 'is also one of the only areas in the Middle East where the houbara bustard is protected. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman] Reference
The little bustard (Otis tetrax) breeds in the Tarbagatai Mountains on the northern side of Emin Valley. From Wordnik.com. [Emin Valley steppe] Reference
From the 1930's, mechanized hunting parties from the north hunted the oryx, gazelles and houbara bustard. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman] Reference
There was one handsome bird, however, as big as a crow, with black and white plumage -- probably the small bustard. From Wordnik.com. [With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train] Reference
A short time later, a squawk and a whir of wings preceded the sudden appearance of a great bustard taking to the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Though not many birds have had more written about them than the bustard, much is unsettled with regard to its economy. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The bustard has long been protected by the game-laws in Great Britain, but, as will have been seen, to little purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The great bustard (Otis tarda, VU) is a desert bird species threatened by the extensive loss of habitat in the region. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the mountains of Central Asia] Reference
The Duke and the agricultural labourer as we know them now may have died out as completely as the bustard and the wild cat. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
The rare houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata) also inhabits this area, as does the rare spiny tailed lizard (Uromastyx thomasi). From Wordnik.com. [Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands] Reference
Neither the bustard nor the gazelle, that sometimes roams Sidi el Muktar's plains, had anything to fear from those noble creatures. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
The bustard gives good sport, and often a good run of three or four miles; indeed there is on record a case of an eleven mile point. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
As for that young puppy, Nefer, he would be up her skirts as quick as a hawk on a bustard, if he hasn't travelled that road already. '. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Duck and bustard still afford sport to the falconer, but he has to work further afield, and gets less in return than in the olden times. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
Then would he hunt the hart, the roebuck, the bear, the fallow deer, the wild boar, the hare, the pheasant, the partridge, and the bustard. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
I did not get my dinner until eight o'clock, and then I dined in peace off a fine wild turkey or bustard, shot for me on the marshes by the. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
It is worth while to cross over here to the other side of the gallery and see the great bustard, with his wonderful curving white feathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of London] Reference
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