Educational resources on Great Bustard

Great Bustard or Otis tarda is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to A2c. IUCN Profile of the Great Bustard

Academic web links for the Great Bustard.

Brontë Sources, Texts, and Criticism
THE GREAT BUSTARD. * (Otis Tarda, Linn.— L'Outarde, Buff.) THIS very singular bird, which is the largest of our land birds, is about four feet long, and weighs from twenty-five
faculty.plattsburgh.edu/peter.friesen/default.asp?go=454

Great Bustard Clipart
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IEA Database
..."Great Bustard" means the middle-European population of the Great Bustard (Otis tarda); "middle-European population of the Great Bustard" means the population of Otis tarda in
iea.uoregon.edu/texts/2000-MemorandumUnderstandingConservationManagementMiddle-European...

Nature: Great Bustard
Great Bustard (Otis tarda). photo by Mihály Bodnár
studentorgs.utexas.edu/husa/nature/tuzok.html

cool facts about birds
The largest birds are: heaviest and tallest is the African Ostrich at 345 lb (156 kg) and 9 ft (2.7 m); heaviest flying bird is the Great Bustard at ~46 lb
www.birds.cornell.edu/schoolyard/all_about_birds/fun_with_birds/cool_facts.html

ADW: Otididae: Pictures
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animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Otididae.html

Brontë Sources, Texts, and Criticism
Both this and the Great Bustard are excellent eating, and would well repay the trouble of domestication; indeed it seems surprizing that we should suffer these fine birds to be in
faculty.plattsburgh.edu/peter.friesen/default.asp?go=455

ADW: Otis: Pictures
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animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Otis.html

GIS/EM4 - Models of avian habitat use
The great bustard Otis tarda in Spain: present status, recent trends and an evaluation of earlier censuses. Biological Conservation 77:79-86.
www.colorado.edu/research/cires/banff/pubpapers/109

ADW: grbustard.jpg
Otis tarda (great bustard) Permissions for Use. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
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