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  • Bustard is sometimes seen here, but they are very shy, & baffle all attempts to get near them.

    Sporting Sketches 2002

  • The officers were accommodated at an inn called the 'Bustard', about two and a half miles to the west of the Larkhill sheds; the men were at Bulford camp, three miles to the east of the sheds.

    The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

  • But their captors handed them over to a rebel guerrilla commander named Tim Reves, or Reeves, Bustard said.

    Archives exhibit explores little-known aspects of Civil War 2010

  • Bustard duly found in the archives a scrawled note on War Department stationery dated Nov. 10, 1864.

    Archives exhibit explores little-known aspects of Civil War 2010

  • There appears to have been bad blood between Reeves and Wilson, Bustard said, but the record on that is not clear.

    Archives exhibit explores little-known aspects of Civil War 2010

  • As to birds, recent reintroductions have focused on large species such as the White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) and the Great Bustard (Otis tarda).

    Of Eagles & Beavers 2007

  • All I know is how my heart soared out on the Hungarian puszta when I saw my first Great Bustard and how privileged I feel whenever I see a piping plover on the beach at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge during a Saturday plover warden shift.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • All I know is how my heart soared out on the Hungarian puszta when I saw my first Great Bustard and how privileged I feel whenever I see a piping plover on the beach at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge during a Saturday plover warden shift.

    rarity 2009

  • The Monitor lizards, desert foxes, porcupines, occasional wolves and black bucks, and the Great Indian Bustard a protected bird are found here, forming an ecological chain revolving around cactii and other hardy desert plants.

    Dune Version | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • As to birds, recent reintroductions have focused on large species such as the White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) and the Great Bustard (Otis tarda).

    Archive 2007-08-12 2007

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