A shot fired in 1832 eliminated the last of the great bustard (otis tarda) in Great Britain. The lar… ...

The great bustard was hunted to extinction in Britain – the last mother with chick was sighted in Suffolk, in 1832. The bustard’s feathers were highly esteemed by fly-dressers, and the birds were once ...

The endangered Great Indian Bustard is one of the world’s largest flying birds whose numbers now hover at just around 150 in ...

Nikhila Purohit cares for eight Great Indian Bustard chicks at a breeding centre in Jaisalmer, part of efforts to save the ...

At the National Board for Wildlife meeting at Sasan in Gujarat’s Junagadh district recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ...

A depiction of a great bustard by the ornithological illustrator William Hayes captures the twilight years of a bird driven to extinction in Britain A picture by William Hayes (1729-1799) depicting a ...

The Great Indian Bustard is a large bird with a horizontal body and long bare legs giving it an ostrich like appearance. It is among the heaviest of the flying birds. The Kutch Bustard sanctuary ...

A conservation program is going on to protect great bustards (Otis tarda), which are close to extinction in the country.

BBC Wiltshire's Breakfast Show presenter Ben Prater is pulling a giant inflatable Great Bustard bird around the county for Children in Need. He and a team of helpers are aiming to cover 50 miles ...

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But this year, only one was sighted in Bidar — the smallest sighted population of this endangered bird species in ... the PM announced a National Great Indian Bustard Conservation Action Plan ...