https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/is-the-great-indian-bustard-about-to-go-extinct/

Nearly 60 years ago the legendary ornithologist Sálim Ali made a bold proposition: A three-foot-tall bird known as the great Indian bustard, he suggested, should be named as the national bird of India.

Maybe they should have listened to Sálim Ali in the first place.