Houbara BustardCoffee drawing by OWAIN MILLS. The Houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata) is a large bird in the bustard family mostly found in arid habitats spread across northern Africa. An Asian species called MacQueen's bustard (Chlamydotis macqueenii), or sometimes called the Asian Houbara, is found in the desert and steppe regions of Asia, east from the Sinai peninsula extending across Kazhakstan and east to Mongolia, migrating to the Arabic peninsula, Iran and