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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We’re still making white horses! The Devizes Millennium White Horse dates from 1999. But there’s a ghost horse up there on the hill, cut in 1845, and named Snob’s Horse after a local word for ‘shoemakers’, but now long disappeared. Beware at night if you’re visiting the hill, for a black dog clanking chains prowls the area, and a headless ghost, perhaps from the Civil War battle that took place there in 1643, drifts along the hilltop…
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!