Have you ever noticed

[Silence Dogood]

I love old thread resurrections!  Where I live we call them buzzards but I believe they are technically a vulture.  They are large black birds with bald heads that eat dead things.  I even see them in my neighborhood on the streets if the fare is tempting enough.  Saw some just last week one street over from my house in the suburbs. 

Side note: some of the old posters in this thread seem to no longer hang out here. Stuff like that always makes me wonder what happened.  Did they lost interest, pass away, etc.  Most times there is no way to tell in a setting like this.

[Queequeg]

I love old thread resurrections!  Where I live we call them buzzards but I believe they are technically a vulture.  They are large black birds with bald heads that eat dead things.  I even see them in my neighborhood on the streets if the fare is tempting enough.  Saw some just last week one street over from my house in the suburbs. 

Side note: some of the old posters in this thread seem to no longer hang out here. Stuff like that always makes me wonder what happened.  Did they lost interest, pass away, etc.  Most times there is no way to tell in a setting like this.

Yeah, growing up in Ohio we always referred to them as buzzards, too.
But apparently we were misinformed.

"There are New World vultures, which consist of the Cathartidae family, and there are Old World vultures, which consist of the Accipitridae family. Buzzards, however, are a species of hawk that belong to the Buteo genus. They are predators that go after live prey, not carrion.
So why is there confusion between the two?


The confusion lies in the history of our country. When Europeans arrived in North America, they referred to the birds in the sky using the same name they used back in Europe – namely, buzzards. Buzzard is the term used to describe what we would call hawks in the United States. However, what the colonists actually saw were birds like Black Vultures and Turkey Vultures. So the name stuck, even though it referred to the wrong species of bird."
source

The radio station we listened to back then:

[unclrob]

WOW!!! All these years later WOW!!!

OP of this thread.

Still alive and somewhat well after all these years.

[StringPicker6]

I have learned so much about vultures from this thread resurrection.

Fun fact: yesterday I saw some buzzards circling around some plastic Martin guitar binding. 

[teh]

StringPicker,

The good news for those buzzards is that the plastic Martin guitar binding won't get stuck in their craw if ingested.

[StringPicker6]

StringPicker,

The good news for those buzzards is that the plastic Martin guitar binding won't get stuck in their craw if ingested.

That's right! It just falls out!!