Houbara Bustards in Lanzarote!
<p>The drivers aren’t used to meeting walkers on the roads, there are rarely pavements or even space to walk safely outside of the towns, but sometimes it’s unavoidable to have to walk along the side of the road, behind the thin white line, as it were, and since we depend on buses, and buses can be unreliable, at best, we thought we’d better keep going. I noticed some movement in a field beside us and looked up and stopped and stared as the tall bird — these are Lanzarote’s biggest birds — stared back at me.</p>
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<p>A ploughed field. Agriculture is declining in Lanzarote as the island depends increasingly on tourism for its economy, but the fields there are become bigger, and thus there are fewer boundary plants or hiding places for the birds. Photo: author’s own.</p>
<p>It obviously alerted its flock to my presence and we were rewarded with the wonderful sight of these magnificent birds rising in silence and sweeping away to a further field out of sight. </p>
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