Friday, August 31, 2007
Buzzard Vulture blogging!
I snapped this turkey buzzard vulture on Prospect Avenue less than one hour ago. I would have gotten a better picture, but some fool with a "Kerry/Edwards" bumper sticker went blowing by with no consideration for my love of nature.
11 Comments:
By 
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Fri Aug 31, 06:42:00 PM:
The buzzards here are geting ready to fly south becuase they dont care for lawyers
By , at
Fri Aug 31, 07:38:00 PM:
It's a turkey vulture. Buzzards are birds endemic to parts of Europe and Asia. They're stronger than vultures and acutally hunt prey rather than already dead carrion.
Interesting the connection between vultures, lawyers and Kerrey/Edwards. The vulture is getting a bad rap.
By 
TigerHawk, at
Fri Aug 31, 08:17:00 PM:
By , at
Fri Aug 31, 09:00:00 PM:
S..t, did another eating club die?
JLW III '67
Key & Seal
By Jamie Irons, at
Fri Aug 31, 10:48:00 PM:
The word "buzzard" actually applies to birds of prey of the kind birders call "buteos," after the Latin name for that kind of raptor. A typical and widespread example is the Red-Tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis (which is not a true "hawk," that is, it is not an accipiter! It gets complicated!).
The most common soaring bird in my neck of the woods, the Napa Valley, is the Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura). You can't look up in the sky for more than twenty seconds without seeing one!
Jamie Irons
By Purple Avenger, at
Sat Sep 01, 10:42:00 AM:
There's vultures that look like this one all over the everglades.
By AmPowerBlog, at
Sat Sep 01, 05:46:00 PM:
It's a pretty good picture, despite the liberals buzzing by on the side!
I see the turkey vultures out here in California. They have a majestic pattern of flight, but they're gnarly birds!
By , at
Sun Sep 02, 12:46:00 AM:
And the CONDOR is a realy large vulture who dont like lawyers
By Horace Jeffery Hodges, at
Mon Sep 03, 04:59:00 AM:
Back in the Ozarks, we called them buzzards ... sometimes even 'turkey' buzzards.
I reckon that we weren't very scientific, however...
Jeffery Hodges
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By , at
Mon Sep 03, 11:08:00 AM:
Back some thousand years ago they had a large vulture like bird the TERRATORN which was larger thena eagle or condor
By , at
Mon Jan 07, 11:40:00 AM:
I saw one in Colliongswood, NJ in the road eating "road kill".
