Salisbury great bustards (1 Viewer)

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Zoot

Well-known member

• Feb 15, 2010

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For anyone interested in the on-going re-introduction scheme, the Great Bustard Group have revamped their periodical magazine, Otis. The first copy is available free at http://www.greatbustard.com/ and it gives an update on the project as it stands.

By the way, I have nothing to do with the project, just interested.

 

JonnyK

Member

• Apr 12, 2010

• #2

As your interested in the Bustard project Zoot, a Great Bustard has been reported at the Otmoor RSPB reserve in Oxfordshire. Check out www.oos.org.uk.

 

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Himalaya

Well-known member

• Apr 15, 2010

• #3

How many birds are there on Salisbury and isthere any information known about how far they can wander?

 

phil baber

Clipped Wing

• Apr 16, 2010

• #4

Himalaya said:

How many birds are there on Salisbury and isthere any information known about how far they can wander?

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Maybe the aforementioned link can help. Bit the Somerset Levels is a great place for catching up with wandering birds in Winter.

http://www.somersetbirds.net/

Go to Bird News Forum.

 

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Zoot

Well-known member

• Jun 17, 2010

• #5

Looks like another good year for the project - four chicks hatched so far and at least 4 nests, so possibly more to come!

See http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/great-bustard-chicks.html

 

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Himalaya

Well-known member

• Jun 28, 2010

• #6

@ phil - dont the birds migrate abroad dring the winter?

 

vwxyzen

swillybirder

• Jul 6, 2010

• #7

Does anyone know if the Salisbury site is the only place where the Great Bustards have been released, or are there other sites which are being kept secret?
The only reason I ask is that I have heard of a report of a bird which "looked like a Great Bustard" flushed by a member of the public at least 200 miles from Salisbury!

 

luke

A Welsh birder in Dorset!

• Jul 7, 2010

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the birds do wander quite big distances. one was seen a few years ago heading out to see off portland bill but it then quickly headed back in land. A few of the birds have developed a migratory pattern. they head to the somerset levels for the winter and hang out with Mute swans.

 

David

Well-known member

• Jul 9, 2010

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luke said:

A few of the birds have developed a migratory pattern. they head to the Somerset levels for the winter and hang out with Mute swans.

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The Salisbury birds have an inherent migratory pattern. They derive from eggs collected near Saratov on the Upper Volga in European Russia. The birds there migrate in winter some 1,000 km SSW to the Crimea peninsula (now Ukraine).

So the 'British' birds could end up in France!