The butchered remains of great bustards found in the graves of people buried 15,000 years ago show that these birds had a ...

Since 1998, hundreds of great bustard have been released on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire Thermal drones are being used to search more than 160,000 acres (250 square miles) looking for nesting ...

Recent findings suggest their death rituals included the great bustard. Bustards are among the largest flying animals on the planet, with males regularly weighing in at about 44 pounds.

The great bustard, now an endangered species, was once hunted and eaten for ancient funeral rites, researchers say. Getty Images/iStockphoto On the northern peninsula of Morocco, just across the ...

A treacherous combination of habitat degradation, illegal hunting, and predation has pushed the Great Indian bustard, one of the world’s heaviest flying birds, to the brink of extinction in ...