Category Archives: Mongolia
Further Royal Support
Posted on Friday, August 11th, 2017 by Paul
The Great Bustard Group was greatly honoured to host a visit by His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales earlier in the year. To mark the visit of His Royal Highness to the Great Bustard re-introduction project on the Salisbury Plain on Friday 17th March, His Royal Highness sent a kind donation to The Great Bustard […]
GBG features on Spanish TV
Posted on Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 by Paul
Our very own David Waters features on Spanish TV during our last egg hunt. The article can be watched from 18 minutes and 6 seconds into the video at the following link – GBG Egg hunt features on Spanish TV
Rarer than Snow Leopards
Posted on Thursday, June 1st, 2017 by Paul
Global Experts Fly In To Save Big Bird Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: 31 May 2017. Great Bustard experts from across the globe met in Ulaanbaatar from 24-30th May to plan the conservation of the Great Bustard in Asia. The Great Bustard is the heaviest bird capable of flight. Asian Great Bustards are rarer than snow leopards. The conference […]
Video link from CBCGDF
Posted on Sunday, May 28th, 2017 by Paul
The following link shows the video entitled “Birds Guards” Many thanks to Song Keming, President of The Green Future Environment Conservation Association of Changyuan County, Henan Province, China. https://v.qq.com/x/page/o0184dr69tu.html
The Stonehenge Bustard (Gertrude)
Posted on Wednesday, April 12th, 2017 by Paul
There has been a lot of social media interest in the female Great Bustard which has been visiting Stonehenge recently. The bird, price known to the project as T5, cost but christened by the Stonehenge staff as “Gertrude” was released in 2011. She is from an egg rescued from an destroyed or endangered nest in […]
HRH The Prince of Wales Visit to Great Bustard Project on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
Posted on Friday, March 17th, 2017 by Paul
On Friday 17th March HRH The Prince of Wales visited the Great Bustard Project. His Royal Highness was able to see a drive of 12 Great Bustards feeding on the edge of Salisbury Plain and then visited the GBG viewing hide and was able to see a further male and a female Great Bustard. The […]
Nest site selection of the Great Bustard (Otis t. tarda) in Körös-Maros National Park, Eastern Hungary
Posted on Monday, February 20th, 2017 by Paul
Gizella Janó1 & Zsolt Végvári Ornis Hungarica 2016. 24(2): 32–45. DOI: 10.1515/orhu-2016-0013 Abstract In the present study we aimed to identify factors influencing the spatial distribution of Great Bustard (Otis t. tarda) nests found between 1998 and 2015 in Dévaványa-Ecseg area in Körös-Maros National Park. During the study period covering 17 years, page we obtained information on 536 […]
