Archive for June, 2012
Channel-hopping bustard
Posted on Thursday, June 28th, 2012 by Andrew Taylor
After spending more than six months without seeing another bustard, it is exciting to be able to report that T5, released in September 2011, has now been back at the project site for a month. In that time we do not believe that she has ever been separated from the other birds – she must […]
Great Bustard chicks rescued in Iran
Posted on Thursday, June 14th, 2012 by Alex Stott
Ahmad Barati, sale our Iranian correspondent, of the Iranian Bokan Environmental Office contacted the Great Bustard Group to let us know about a Great Bustard nest discovered by a local farmer in North West Iran. In the course of harvesting the nest was inadvertently damaged, but its occupants; two Great Bustard chicks were successfully rescued. […]