A great Indian bustard standing in dry grass

One of the Last

There are fewer than 150 great Indian bustards left. I spent a week with one.

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It is a ridiculous bird and a magnificent one, tall as a child, with a walk like a retired general. It cannot see power lines well, and power lines are what is killing it.

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An example book, made to show how Stories reads.

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Meera Rathore

Wildlife photographer working the grasslands of western Rajasthan. Mostly wolves, sometimes bustards, always dust.