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For instance, India’s Supreme Court in April 2021 ordered that transmission lines for solar energy be put underground after environmentalists reported the lines were killing critically endangered great Indian bustards.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2022

“They release the extra bustards into the Desert Conservation Reserve.”

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2018

During an evening bush drive, two kori bustards, the heaviest flying birds in Africa, took flight following their mandatory takeoff steps.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2017

In 2004, he says, they counted 14,500 nesting pairs of great bustards, but in 2012 there were only 4,500.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2015

On another memorable autumn afternoon I bagged, under similar conditions, eight of these bustards, besides four of the larger kind, the former all shot as they flew in at dusk towards an open threshing-ground.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.