Salisbury Plains Great Bustard re-introduction scheme (1 Viewer)

wolfbirder

Well-known member

• May 19, 2011

• #1

There have been 2 'returning' displaying adult males at the re-introduction site.

See "news" section on www.greatbustard.org
Then go to the post of 1st May, and view the footage of displaying male no.5! It really livens up from 7 minutes onwards, with a bird displaying to a metal decoy!.

For £10 you can go and visit these birds through the same website, or emailing [email protected]. They offer guided tours 3 times per day 4 days pw.

I hadn't realised you could go and see them.

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Cornish Chough

Well-known member

• May 20, 2011

• #2

I've been several times the last time in April, great isn't it. On one visit the group I was with were lucky to see 9 Great Bustard's near a farm on the Plain.

 

wolfbirder

Well-known member

• May 22, 2011

• #3

Cornish Chough said:

I've been several times the last time in April, great isn't it. On one visit the group I was with were lucky to see 9 Great Bustard's near a farm on the Plain.

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I must go next spring, love to see a displaying male.:t:

 

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Himalaya

Well-known member

• May 22, 2011

• #4

I will visit hopefully in June. It would be brilliant if they get a foothold in Britain. Would Salisbury be the only place that is suitable for them - surely there will be other places which could hold Bustard populations in the future from Devon across to Norfolk?

 

david kelly

Drive-by Birder

• May 22, 2011

• #5

There used to be a population on the Berwickshire merse but I think that a reintroduction to Scotland is never going to happen. BB published an interesting article on the British Great Bustards recently.

David