Talk:Great bustard

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It would be good to have a photograph of a Great Bustard. Snowman 09:51, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Albino birds killed by cables

 * "Two very rare albino Great Bustards from the same nest were killed by electricity cables in Hungary in 2000 and 2003. The bustards, despite their large size, are able to fly at a high velocity (60 kilometre/hour) and are often mutilated or killed by the cables which are placed in Hungary just at their flying heights. The electricity companies affected will bury only part of the dangerous cables, therefore the authorities are experimenting with fixing fluorescent "Firefly" devices on the most dangerous cables to provide the birds with warning lights. (The funds available are not sufficient for a full treatment of the problem.)"

This information seems a bit random in a relatively short article and didn't seem to fit in the Populations section. I wasn't really sure what to do with it, but didn't want to delete it, so I moved it to the end of the main section. Dave.Dunford (talk) 11:29, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


 * It reads much better after your edit - thanks :-)  Dom Kaos (talk) 21:58, 4 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I must agree, it does. Thanks! :D HoopoeBaijiKite 07:09, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Population in Russia
The table on the range of these birds does not mention Russia, yet the text underneath says that there are 8,000 birds in Russia. Why this discrepancy? Caeruleancentaur (talk) 09:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Avis tarda
Tarda cannot come from Old Spanish if it is used by Pliny. Srnec (talk) 11:44, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

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National bird status, preservation
"In Hungary, where the species is the national bird, great bustards are actively protected. The Hungarian authorities are seeking to preserve the long-term future of the population by active protection measures; the area affected by the special ecological treatment had grown to 15 km2 (5.8 sq mi) by the summer of 2006."

According to multiple sources - including wikipedia itself -, the national bird of Hungary is not the great bustard.

The second statement is also outdated. In fact, the current government of Hungary actually privatized stretches of Natura 2000-designated land with a law recently ruled unconstitutional (see a WWF article for details).

Extirpation in UK
I was once told a story; it is unsourced, which is why it is here rather than in the article.

During the first half of the 19th century, a foreign visitor at an English country house was an appalling shot, and was spoiling the enjoyment of (and possibly endangering) the other guests. So, his host inventively confided in him that a Great bustard had recently been seen on his lands, and would he care to hunt for it on his own, assisted by a single keeper?

That evening, the visitor thanked his host profusely for offering him such an opportunity. You can guess the rest. Narky Blert (talk) 21:55, 15 November 2018 (UTC)