Bustards (Otididae)
Great Bustard (Otis tarda) - HBW 3, p. 263
French: Grande Outarde
German: Großtrappe
Spanish: Avutarda Euroasiática
Taxonomy: Otis Tarda Linnaeus, 1758, Poland.
Genus has frequently been merged with Tetrax, and sometimes also Ardeotis and Neotis, but nowadays species normally considered sufficiently distinct to merit generic isolation from these forms (see page 240). Birds of C Asia formerly awarded separate race korejewi, but extensive overlap with nominate tarda. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- tarda Linnaeus, 1758 - N Morocco and Iberia, Germany and Hungary, and S Ukraine; remnant populations elsewhere in E Europe. Also breeds in Turkey and W Iran, and from SW Russia through Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan, wintering from S Turkey and Syria through S Azerbaijan and N Iran to Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan.
- dybowskii Taczanowski, 1874 - SE Russia, Mongolia and NE China.
- Vulnerable Enlarge map
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A male performing the courtship display. Locality Valdetorres, Madrid, Spain (ssp tarda)
Javier Ortas 30 April 2007 3 years ago 30 sec 4.3 -
A male displaying around a female Locality Campillo de Dueñas, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain (ssp tarda)
Miguel Ángel Bielsa 27 April 2006 4 years ago 46 sec 4.2 -
Birds flying Locality Talamanca del Jarama, Madrid, Spain
Juan Sanabria 1 April 2011 20 weeks ago 43 sec 4 -
Some birds feeding on the ground. Locality Villafáfila, Zamora, Castile and Leon, Spain
Javier Ortas 28 June 2009 2 years ago 30 sec 4 -
A bird on the ground. Locality Villafáfila, Zamora, Castile and Leon, Spain
Javier Ortas 28 June 2009 2 years ago 31 sec 4 -
A group of birds on the ground, one of them stretching the wings and then all of them flying away. Locality Monegros, Aragón, Spain (ssp tarda)
Jesús Laborda 7 December 2008 2 years ago 16 sec 3.9
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A female
Locality Valladolid, Castile and Leon, Spain (ssp tarda)
CarlosNaza 19 October 2010 1 year ago 4.4 -
A male performing the courtship display.
Locality Hampshire, England, Great Britain (ssp tarda)
Tomasz Doroń 31 May 2009 2 years ago 4 -
Otis tarda
Locality Algete, Madrid, Spain
Conrado Requena Aznar 9 August 2009 2 years ago 3.7 -
Flying adult male Great Bustard
Locality Burgenland State, Austria
Fabienne Muriset 29 April 2010 1 year ago 3.5 -
Adult male walking between two displays
Locality Trujillo, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
Nicole Bouglouan 19 April 2007 1 year ago 3.5 -
Male preening beside female
Locality Belén, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
Brendan Marnell 20 April 2009 1 year ago 3.3
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