• Thumbnail for Bustard
    Bustards, including floricans and korhaans, are large, terrestrial birds living mainly in dry grassland areas and on the steppes of the Old World. They...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Indian bustard
    The great Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) or Indian bustard is a bustard occurring on the Indian subcontinent. It is a large bird with a horizontal...
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  • Thumbnail for Kori bustard
    The kori bustard (Ardeotis kori) is the largest flying bird native to Africa. It is a member of the bustard family, which all belong to the order Otidiformes...
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    The great bustard (Otis tarda) is a bird in the bustard family, and the only living member of the genus Otis. It breeds in open grasslands and farmland...
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  • Thumbnail for Australian bustard
    The Australian bustard (Ardeotis australis) is a large ground-dwelling bird that is common in grassland, woodland and open agricultural country across...
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  • Thumbnail for Houbara bustard
    The houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata), also known as African houbara (houbara from Arabic: حُبَارَى, romanized: ḥubārā for bustards in general), is...
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  • Thumbnail for Little bustard
    The little bustard (Tetrax tetrax) is a bird in the bustard family, the only member of the genus Tetrax. The genus name is from Ancient Greek and refers...
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  • Thumbnail for MacQueen's bustard
    MacQueen's bustard (Chlamydotis macqueenii) is a large bird in the bustard family. It is native to the desert and steppe regions of Asia, west from the...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary
    Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary (established in 1979, also known as the Jawaharlal Nehru Bustard Sanctuary of Maharashtra) is a wildlife sanctuary for the...
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  • Thumbnail for Bengal florican
    Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis), also called the Bengal bustard, is a bustard species native to the Indian subcontinent, Cambodia, and Vietnam...
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  • Thumbnail for Denham's bustard
    Denham's bustard, Stanley bustard or Stanley's bustard (Neotis denhami) is a large bird in the bustard family. It breeds in much of Sub-Saharan Africa...
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  • Thumbnail for Heuglin's bustard
    Heuglin's bustard (Neotis heuglinii) is a species of bird in the bustard family. It is a fairly large species, at up to 89 cm (35 in) in length. The males...
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  • Thumbnail for Arabian bustard
    The Arabian bustard (Ardeotis arabs) is a species of bustard which is found across the Sahel region of Africa and south western Arabia. It is part of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Nubian bustard
    The Nubian bustard (Neotis nuba) is a species of bird in the bustard family. This is a medium-large bustard found in the sparsely vegetated interface between...
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  • Four vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Bustard after the Bustard: HMS Bustard (1806) was launched in 1803 as the brig Royal George for...
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  • Thumbnail for Kutch Bustard Sanctuary
    Kutch Bustard Sanctuary or Kachchh Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary, also known as Lala–Parjan Sanctuary, is located near Jakhau village in Taluka Abdasa...
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  • Thumbnail for Ludwig's bustard
    Ludwig's bustard (Neotis ludwigii) is a species of bird in the bustard family, and named after Baron von Ludwig. It is a medium-to-large sized species...
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  • Thumbnail for Northern black korhaan
    (Afrotis afraoides), also known as the white-quilled bustard, is a species of bird in the bustard family, Otididae. It is widely distributed across Southern...
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  • Thumbnail for Canarian houbara
    (Chlamydotis undulata fuertaventurae) is a large bird in the bustard family. It is a houbara bustard subspecies which is endemic to the eastern Canary archipelago...
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  • Colonel Frank Bustard OBE (1886 – 22 January 1974) was a British shipping pioneer who established the commercial use of ro-ro ships using converted tank...
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  • Thumbnail for List of bustards
    Bustards are birds in the family Otididae in the monotypic order Otidiformes. There are currently 26 extant species of bustards recognised by the International...
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  • Thumbnail for White-bellied bustard
    The white-bellied bustard or white-bellied korhaan (Eupodotis senegalensis) is an African species of bustard. It is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa in...
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  • Thumbnail for Red-crested korhaan
    The red-crested korhaan or red-crested bustard (Lophotis ruficrista) is a species of bird in the family Otididae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Eswatini...
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  • Thumbnail for Rollapadu Wildlife Sanctuary
    Andhra Pradesh, India. Known primarily as a habitat of the great Indian bustard, the species has suffered a drastic fall in its numbers in the sanctuary...
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  • Thumbnail for Southern black korhaan
    (Afrotis afra), also known as the black bustard, is a species of bird in the bustard family, Otididae. This small bustard is found in southwestern South Africa...
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  • Thumbnail for Hartlaub's bustard
    Hartlaub's bustard (Lissotis hartlaubii) is a species of bird in the family Otididae. It is found in open grassland with grass up to 1800 meters in Ethiopia...
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  • Thumbnail for Black-bellied bustard
    black-bellied bustard (Lissotis melanogaster), also known as the black-bellied korhaan, is an African ground-dwelling bird in the bustard family. The black-bellied...
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  • Thumbnail for Otis (bird)
    Otis is a genus of bustard containing a single living species, the great bustard (Otis tarda). Several extinct species are known, including the recently...
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  • Thumbnail for Seventeen Seventy, Queensland
    Offshore from Seventeen Seventy is: Bustard Bay (24°06′22″S 151°49′08″E / 24.1061°S 151.8189°E / -24.1061; 151.8189 (Bustard Bay)) the Fairfax Islands group...
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  • Thumbnail for Barred buttonquail
    The barred buttonquail or common bustard-quail (Turnix suscitator) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are not closely...
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