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Great Bustard
The great bustard (''Otis tarda'') is a bird in the bustard family, and it is the only living member of the genus ''Otis (bird), Otis''. It breeds in open grasslands and farmland from northern Morocco, South Europe, South and Central Europe, to temperate Central Asia, Central and East Asia. European populations are mainly resident, but Asian populations bird migration, migrate farther south in winter. It has been listed as a Vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 1996. Portugal and Spain now have about 60% of the world's population. It was driven to extinction in Great Britain, when the last bird was shot in 1832. Recent attempts to reintroduce it into England have met with some success, and there is a population of about 40 birds on Salisbury Plain, a British Army training area. Here, the lack of public access and disturbance allows them the seclusion they (and other animals) desire, especially as a large, ground-nesting bird. Taxonomy The genus ''Otis (bird), Otis'' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
