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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Summary: unidentified barque at sea, flying the Swedish flag; cream mount; framed/glazed
Summary: watercolour on board; white gouache highlights; depicting Swedish three-masted barque in English Channel; signed ‘E.R. Jones 1911’; dims : height 34.2cm; width 49.7cm
Content summary: three-masted barque under full sail on a port tack, in fair weather; sailing post-1905 Swedish merchant flag from gaff
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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!