GREAT INDIAN BUSTARDS (GIB)

About:

• GIBs are the largest among the four bustard species found in India, the other three being MacQueen’s bustard, lesser florican and the Bengal florican.
  
  
• GIBs’ historic range included much of the Indian sub-continent but it has now shrunken to just 10 per cent of it.
  
  
• Among the heaviest birds with flight, GIBs prefer grasslands as their habitats.
  
  
• Being terrestrial birds, they spend most of their time on the ground with occasional flights to go from one part of their habitat to the other.
  
  
• They feed on insects, lizards, grass seeds etc.