Return of the inglorious bustards

EVERY April for the past few years, visitors to Stonehenge have encountered a strange bird striding purposefully around the monument. Gertrude, as she has been christened by the Stonehenge staff, is a female great bustard () and would once have been a familiar sight on Salisbury Plain, before the species was hunted to extinction in the 19th century. Great bustards are usually shy and wary, but not Gertrude, who is unperturbed by humans or dogs and will, after a brief visit, disappear to join the rest of her drove for the breeding season. The fact that she is here at