What the heck is a lek?
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
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Watercolour mounted on page 53 of H.J. Moule “Dorset. Volume 2”. The page has been excised, remounted and framed with four other watercolours. A view of the pond in the grounds of Kingston Maurwood House.; View of a large pond surrounded by trees. There are 5 swans/ ducks on the pond. In the foreground is a grassed area.
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Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.
The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!