The most exciting bird of the flight was a houbara bustard flying up from the dry desert scrub showing large white patches on its wings. |
Some extinguishing species like white-headed duck, houbara bustard and Siberian crane also travel on this route, he said. |
His Majesty had ordered the launch of the project in a bid to provide breeding habitats for houbara bustard birds and protect them from overhunting and poaching. |
That's why news that a demonstration in Pakistan demanding the end a ban on Hunting the houbara bustard might make you do a double-take. |
First of all, we have the houbara breeding programme, which started in the 1960s, and after many years it gave us the first 90 houbara chicks. |
I confess to the herder that I don't really know what a houbara looks like, having only encountered the kori bustard of the savannah. |