The male inflates the crest, neck and head feathers, raises the wings and while walking slowly and gracefully, keeps the tail raised like an umbrella and occasionally lowers the wings. Then suddenly, he begins leaping back and forth, all the while, trying to attract a female. Houbara bustards are monogamous. Bustards lay their eggs in a scrape on the ground, usually sandy ground, and fill it with feathers or leaves and twigs. Houbara bustards prefer to make their nests in the shade, like underneath bushes, so as to be protected from direct sunlight and hidden from enemies.
Eggs are greyish olive in colour with numerous brown spots.
Houbara bustards lay a total of three eggs. The young are nidifugous and hatch covered in down, leaving the nest after a short period of about one week, during which they are fed by the female. The young are able to fly about 35 days after hatching. The Department of Enviornment in Iran has taken measures to stop this trend. Therefore, like the Arabian countries and Spain, it has set out to rear Houbara bustards artificially, but the results are still unknown.