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Line 21: ==Status== Most species are declining or endangered through habitat loss and hunting, even where they are nominally protected.<ref name="bota"/> Two great bustard eggs were recently laid in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] for the first time in over 150 years<ref name=wildlifeextra>[http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/bustard-eggs.html]http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/bustard-eggs.html</ref>, but were unfertilized—probably owing to the still juvenile male population. The last bustard in Britain died in approximately 1832, but the bird is being reintroduced through batches of chicks imported from Russia.<ref name="bota"/>
==Floricans== |