Great Bustards
Otis
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...
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Hermann Schlegel — Monographie des toerako's (1860)
Hermann Schlegel · 1860 · p.57
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.444
History of Animals, Book I: On Viviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1554 · p.654
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.842
Valeriano: Hieroglyphica (1575)
Pierio Valeriano · 1556 · p.368
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.959
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.305
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.324
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 2 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.32
Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch · 1770 · p.97
Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.273
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.253
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 76.