For the purposes of our bird news services, this species is classed as Scarce: broadly speaking, species that are covered in British Birds' annual review of scarce species (and forms of similar rarity).

Austria 18/04/13	Spain 17/04/13	Spain 15/04/13	Spain 15/04/13	Spain 15/04/13
Spain 15/04/13	Spain 20/02/05	Spain 21/03/13	Spain 10/03/13	Spain 07/04/12
Portugal 18/03/12	Ringstead Bay, Dorset 17/12/11	Spain 30/10/11	Portugal 11/10/11	Portugal 10/10/11
Portugal 14/09/11	Portugal 14/09/11	Portugal 08/11/09	Langford Lakes, Wilts 01/03/10	Langford Lakes, Wilts 01/03/10
Langford Lakes, Wilts 23/02/10	Langton Herring, Dorset 22/01/11	Harbridge, Hants 30/12/10	Harbridge, Hants 30/12/10	Harbridge, Hants 30/12/10

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Great Bustard has been reported in the following areas (Bird News Extra subscribers can see a list of all records, as well as charts and graphs analysing the data by area, year, month, age and sex):

Great Bustard breeds in the following countries (Bird News Extra subscribers will see population statistics and information on trends for each country, and a map of population densities):

Austria
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Germany
Hungary
Moldova
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia
Spain
Turkey
Ukraine

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	RSPB: Breathing new life into Salisbury Plain	Wednesday 19th January 2011
	An ambitious programme to return the world's heaviest flying bird to the UK has been given a considerable lift from the EU.   read on
	RSPB: Great Bustards on the rise	Thursday 10th June 2010
	Reintroduction scheme sees four new bustard chicks roaming the plains of Wiltshire.   read on
	RSPB: The first Great Bustard chicks in the UK	Tuesday 2nd June 2009
	Two female Great Bustards from the UK reintroduction have reared young for the first time in 177 years.   read on
	Great Bustards to be released on Salisbury Plain	Thursday 25th September 2008
	Researchers at the University of Bath and conservationists from the Great Bustard Group will be releasing 19 birds as part of an ongoing reintroduction project in the UK.   read on
	Great Bustards Nest Again in UK	Tuesday 24th July 2007
	A female from the UK reintroduction has nested in England - the first Great Bustard nest in the UK for 175 years.   read on
	The Great Bustard Reintroduction Project	Wednesday 17th May 2006
	There have been some exciting events recently regarding the Great Bustard reintroduction project that is underway on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. Several of these birds have featured on our news pages. Find out more about the project and the movements of some of the birds.   read on

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