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| | The Great Bustard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The Great Bustard (Otis tarda), inhabits open, flat or slightly undulating, usually treeless cereal farmland. |
 | | It belongs to a quite homogeneous bird family, the Otididae, which also includes two other species in Europe, the Little Bustard (Tetrax tetrax), widespread over the Iberian Peninsula, and the Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata), in the Canary Islands. |
 | | The family Otididae, which currently includes 25 species, originated some 50 million years ago in Africa. |
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