Great bustard

The great bustard is a hefty grassland bird with a stately waddle. It lives in open fields and farmlands from Europe to Central Asia, with some populations migrating south in winter. This rare bird has been classified as endangered since the 1990s.

• It's the only surviving species in its genus, Otis.
• European great bustards stay put year-round, while Asian ones migrate.
• Conservationists have considered it vulnerable since 1996.