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n. Any of various large, long-legged Old World game birds of the family Otididae that frequent dry, open, grassy plains.

n. Any of several large terrestrial birds of the family Otididae that inhabit dry open country and steppes in the Old World.

n. A bird of the genus Otis.

n. A large grallatorial bird of the family Otididœ, or of the genus Otis in a wide sense.

n. A name in Canada of the common wild goose, Bernicla canadensis, A. Newton.

n. large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes

"The bustard is a pelican-like bird that was completely eliminated from the British Isles by hunters, and only exists in those parts of Europe, like Germany and Hungary, where blood sport had been mainly confined to killing Jews, Gypsies, and the disabled."

wading bird    wader   

thick-kneed bustard   

otis tarda    plain turkey    choriotis australis    great bustard   

clustered    custard    flustered    mustard    mustered   

pelican    flamingo    curlew    heron    stork    guillemot    egret    peafowl    egrets    puffin