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

The great bustard is the heaviest flying bird, weighing in at around 18kg (40lb) and is also the largest of all European birds. There are eighteen adult great bustards living on or in close proximity ...

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 ...

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

A baby Great Indian Bustard has hatched in the ... objective of preventing the extinction of Rajasthan's state bird Great ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...