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This is my dream – this is my nightmare

10,000 Birds

Once this species inhabited wide steppes of India and Pakistan, but nowadays remains in ever smaller and more isolated habitat fragments. After the African Kori Bustard and Eurasian Great Bustard (and I have observed both of them), this is the third largest bustard of the world. Males reach 1.2 meters (3.9 Then the male disappeared.

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The Rarest Bird I’ve Ever Seen

10,000 Birds

They nest on the vast central plains of Asia and winter in inhospitable places like Iraq and Pakistan, and rarely visited places like the White Desert of Kutch in Gujarat. As it turns out things aren’t really that bad for it, it’s just that they tend to hang out in unpopulated areas.

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