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The Great Bustard Group is using drones to help find Great Bustard nests at Salisbury Plain.

The devices are searching more than 64,750 ha of the Wiltshire countryside to seek out nesting bustards.

The species, which is globally threatened and listed as Endangered by the IUCN, was first reintroduced to Salisbury Plain by the Great Bustard Group in 1998. A population has established, but nesting birds are at risk of being mown down by farm machinery – hence the implementation of drones to help find them.

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