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 21 of H.J. Moule “Dorset Vol.7”. Kingston Maurwood Park, a man and four cows (1899).; A man herding four cows in a field, a river and a large tree are on the left, a line of trees are on the right.
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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!