bustard

noun

bus·tard ˈbə-stərd

: any of a family (Otididae) of large chiefly terrestrial Old World and Australian game birds

Examples of bustard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web These reptiles were bigger than bustards, bigger than albatrosses, and in 1975 paleontologist Douglas Lawson described what may be the largest flying animal of all time—Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur that stood as tall as a giraffe on the ground and had a wingspan 36 feet across. —

Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023 As any worthwhile polygamous male bustard should!Males of a strongly polygynous species consume more poisonous food than females. —

Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2014 The duo worked with the Houbara bustard, a large bird that has been hunted extensively because its meat is prized as an aphrodisiac. —

Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2010 This plausibly explains the intense cloaca display males perform to approaching females, and the meticulous inspection females conduct of the male's cloaca, a behaviour only observed in this and another similar species of the bustard family. —

Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2014 The great bustard is a beloved but endangered bird found in Spain and other locations scattered across Eurasia. —

Sarah Stanley, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2011 The researchers collected flowering plants of these two species growing at one of the largest great bustard breeding grounds in central Spain, near Valdetorres del Jarama. —

Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022 Another still-unexploded ordinance is currently nestled into the ground in a bustard’s dwelling. —

Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022 The largest great bustard recorded tipped the scales at more than 46 pounds—that’s slightly heavier than a full-size border collie. —

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