#0864 · 🐦 birds
Great Bustard
🇳🇱 Grote Trap ·Otis tarda
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what is it?
The great bustard ( Otis tarda ) is a bird in the bustard family, the only member of the genus Otis . It breeds in open grassland and farmland in southern and central Europe, and across temperate Asia. European populations are mainly resident, but Asian birds move further south in winter. Portugal and Spain now contain about 60% of the world's population. It became extinct in Great Britain when the last bird was shot in 1832. Recent attempts to...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,758 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 143 g.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
- Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Great Bustard
- Nederlands
- Grote Trap
- scientific name
- Otis tarda
- class
- Aves
- order
- Otidiformes
- family
- Otididae
- IUCN Red List
- EN · endangered
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 3,371
- sightings worldwide
- 3,758
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,318
- weight
- 143 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Otididae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 77, Wikidata Q171655, GBIF 2474921, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.