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 paid him a penny, he’d get rid of your warts! Warts were sent by ill-wishers, it was said, so you could charm them away. What the wart charmer from Stour Provost did was take your penny, mutter a charm over it, and stick the penny in the church wall. Did it work? Perhaps not, as kids would go and dig the pennies out to buy sweets. You have no wart charmer? Try rubbing a bit of cheese on the wart and then burying the cheese. When the cheese has rotted, so the wart will go. It worked for Philip Gosse of Poole!
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!