Common name: Houbara Bustard
Scientific name: Chlamydotis undulata
Status: Present in Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and La Graciosa, it is estimated that in total there are about 600 birds in the Canary Islands, of which about 350 would live in Lanzarote and 215 in Fuerteventura.
Habitat and distribution: It occupies desert environments, volcanic sandbanks and earthy and stony plains with hardly any vegetation. It also goes to eat in cultivated areas and marginal lands.
How to recognize it: Small and slender bustard, very shy, it prefers to flee by walking stealthily to having to fly.
Curiosities: Although the highest densities of the entire world distribution area of the species have been recorded in the archipelago, the Canary Houbara is now scarcer in Fuerteventura and has disappeared from several sites.
