| 单词 | great bustard |
| 例句 | Clocking in at around 35 pounds, the great bustard is often referred to as the “flying fortress,” Bird says, because it’s the heaviest flying bird. The Biggest Bird That Ever Lived and 5 More Bird Superstars 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The great bustard has been reintroduced to Salisbury Plain. 'It is strange to see the British struggling with the beaver': why is rewilding so controversial? 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z David Waters, from the GBG, said if it was a "reasonable year" it would be the first "new great bustard population" to be established "anywhere in the world." Great bustards 'establishing' in the UK - BBC News 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z A further shipment of great bustard chicks is planned for later in the year. Imported great bustard eggs hatch 2012-07-12T15:06:49Z Bitterns used to boom and breed in the bog, and once, though only once, a great bustard was shot. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z The largest great bustard recorded tipped the scales at more than 46 pounds—that’s slightly heavier than a full-size border collie. The Biggest Bird That Ever Lived and 5 More Bird Superstars 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Old German works make much mention of the use of the Iceland falcon for taking the great bustard, a flight scarcely alluded to by English writers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The future for the great bustard, the world's heaviest flying bird, looks bright again after it was hunted to extinction in the UK 180 years ago. Future is bright for great bustard 2011-01-19T19:39:36Z They had just topped a light swell, and there, about two hundred and odd yards from the road, stalked the great bustards. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion It is worth while to cross over here to the other side of the gallery and see the great bustard, with his wonderful curving white feathers. The Children's Book of London I heard a great noise one day outside my room and found Master "Pips," attacking a fine male specimen I had of the great bustard, Eupodotis Edwardsii, and had just seized it by the throat. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The outarde, or little bustard, is often to be had at Wiltcher's, and it is the only place at which I have eaten the great bustard, whose flesh is very much like a turkey's. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe From there one can hunt the great bustard, and I had hoped to do so until I saw the animals that were to take us to the coast. Morocco Then from the heather almost under our feet rose a great bustard that ran down wind with outstretched wings before us, seeking the lonelier country. King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet Its great bustard, once our greatest bird—even greater than the golden and sea eagles and the "giant crane" with its "trumpet sound" once heard in the land—is now but a memory. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs The great bustard, the crane, and bittern have been driven away by cultivation. The Life of the Fields |
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