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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If you went to Sheep Market Hill in Blandford Forum back in the day, it would have been no surprise to see a white fluffy sheep or two, because, as the name suggests, there was a sheep market. Today, not so much. But the sheep are there, nonetheless, in another way: a glowing ghostly ram and, far, far worse, a flock of headless sheep! Don’t fear that the headless sheep will run riot, because there are ghostly black dogs also that haunt the town. They rise at night from their stony pillars on Bryanston Drive and the bridge. Surely they can keep the ghostly sheep in check?
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!