c/birding · by KevinFRK@lemmy.world · 2yCommon Buzzard Reading, UK - just feeding my addiction to photoing Buzzards and Kites. 54 points · 2 comments · view on lemmy.world
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HM05_Me@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Awesome photo. Though, I was thrown off by the picture. In the US we often refer to vultures as buzzards and we would likely refer to this as a hawk. I'm not sure how we messed that one up.
Where I grew up had a ton of Red-tailed Hawks and the occasional Swallow-tailed Kites. I always love seeing and hearing them around.
KevinFRK@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I think it fairly obvious that the first European settlers in North America were far from Ornithologists :)
As you've most likely already seen to find those links, Red-tailed hawks and (what I think of as) a Buzzard share a genus Buteo.