Great bustard Bonn Convention, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Conservation and Management of Middle-European Populations of the Great Bustard was concluded and came into effect on June 1, 2001. The MoU provides a framework for governments, scientists, conservation bodies and others to monitor and coordinate conservation efforts in order to protect the middle-European populations of the great bustard. Great bustard The great bustard ("Otis tarda") is a bird in the bustard family, the only member of the genus "Otis". It breeds in open grassland and farmland in southern and central Europe, and across temperate Asia. European populations are mainly resident,
Three Little Birds a cover of Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds". The songs on the album were chosen with collaboration between Talbot and her management; first Talbot and her family wrote "a list of the songs that Connie would sing at her birthday party", and the management then thought "long and hard" about including the more adult songs, including "I Will Always Love You", but Talbot herself insisted. The album was recorded in a bedroom studio, nicknamed "the hut". "Three Little Birds" was released as Talbot's first single on 10 June 2008 in the UK, and released alongside the album in the U.S.