How To Use Buzzard In A Sentence
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He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
CHAPTER XV
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Mar–Oct; £8.50 per person per night plus £3 YHA membership fee per person per night or £14.35 per year; 07747 174293If it weren't for the fact that Latin is a long-dead language, you could be forgiven for thinking that the phrase multum in parvo much in little was coined specifically with The Buzzards in mind.
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The buzzard, although not a native of the Eastern Counties, is apt to appear in both Lincolnshire and Norfolk from time to time.
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At night you can hear the call of the Cape Eagle owl and during the day you might see bokmakieries, sunbirds, sugar birds, steppe buzzards, heron and many many more.
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Yo momma's so ugly, she'd scare a buzzard off a gut wagon.
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Yet, the buzzard does not exist in such numbers for it to be a constant danger to the game preserves, and quite rightly it has been placed upon the list of protected birds.
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The buzzard, soaring at a great height, suddenly finds itself caught up in a current of air against which it is impossible to battle.
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I was ploughing one day, some long time after the mare died, with what we call a buzzard plough.
Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England
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A meadow-pipit tsip-tsips from rock to rock while a buzzard mounts thermals on still wings and mews down at us.
Country diary: Barmouth
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Large amounts of rubbish in the streets and round buildings attracted scavenging birds such as gulls, buzzards, ravens and red kites when things were quiet.
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The common buzzard bears little resemblance to the vulture (not shown), which is a buzzard in nicknameonly.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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The buzzard, soaring at a great height, suddenly finds itself caught up in a current of air against which it is impossible to battle.
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A buzzard, high above, hung on the thermals and the sound of drumming snipe reminded me that this, after all, was summer.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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Several previously declining bird species are now thriving, including the red kite, marsh harrier, osprey, honey buzzard and whooper swan.
Times, Sunday Times
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The band was originally founded in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire (UK), in 1979, as a four-piece avant-garde instrumental group, called Art Nouveau, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar,
Side-Line news feed
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A buzzard was circling above the rock-face, black against the brightness.
A DEATH IN TIME
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A buzzard has strong, thick, feathered legs and walks with a dignified gait.
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In many ways, there are lots of people like the buzzard, the bat and the bee.
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It features free-flying displays and an opportunity for people to see at close hand some 30 different birds of prey, including eagles, buzzards and falcons.
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The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards.
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We sojourned for days across the Great Eastern Range, buzzards flying over-head.
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Amongst an immense number of others are found many new reptiles, some of them adapted for fresh water; species of birds allied to the sea-lark, curlew, quail, buzzard, owl, and pelican; species allied to the dormouse and squirrel; also the opossum and racoon; and species allied to the genette, fox, and wolf.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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They are glossier, sleeker, a much bigger engine than a buzzard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The same may be said of the buzzard (buteo vulgaris).
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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A light onshore breeze ruffled the surface of the bay, a few feet away I watched a turkey buzzard or vulture fly by.
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The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards.
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Finally, the honey buzzards, young griffon vultures and hobbies mark the end of the spring or prenuptial migration, around the end of June.
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The reason for the desertion wasn't difficult to find: a pair of Buzzards had decided that the old rookery was an ideal place for them to nest!
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Buzzard, Buteo buteo, I read in the AA guide to British Birds, a hardback with a beautiful picture of a tawny owl on the cover, which you can still find in many homes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Some of the most notable bird species of the 112 that have been recorded include Gurney's buzzard Buteo poecilochrous, Andean condor Vultur gryphus, giant hummingbird Patagona gigas peruviana, giant coot Fulica gigantea, and ornate tinamou Nothoprocta ornata.
Huascaran National Park, Peru
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Boasting buzzards, merlins, kestrels, peregrines, and ospreys, the county has ten of a total UK species of 15-making it one of the nation's key habitats.
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We didn't catch that fish, or any fish, but we had a great day with kingfishers, peregrine falcons and buzzards for company.
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Still, I saw a family of deer, a blue jay, a New Forest pony suckling, and a buzzard wheeling so low I could count the individual pinions extended at its wingtips.
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Sounds like a Mexican buzzard, formally known as the crested caracara, said Johnson County outdoorsman Ronnie Galbreath, who raises boer-cross goats outside Joshua.
Undefined
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(_Linota flavirostris_), hen harrier (_Circus cyaneus_), buzzard (_Buteo vulgaris_), redshank (_Totanus calidris_), greenshank (_Totanus cunescens_) and the little auk (_Mergulus alle_).
Hertfordshire
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An unusual physiotherapy session involving holding the buzzard while it flaps its wings, is now planned, to prepare the bird for release.
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In the barn (one of only a handful that have not been developed in the locality) there are nesting pairs of barn owls, and sparrow hawks, while buzzards and peregrine falcons are regular visitors to the woods.
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I have had reports of buzzard and nocturnal quail.
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He insists this perception is wrong and that the main threat to curlews and plovers comes not from buzzards but habitat loss.
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In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers.
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Red deer stags greeted me on the ridge crest and a buzzard wheeled away over the corrie below.
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But the common buzzard, found across much of Europe and Asia, is a hawk, not a vulture.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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Ten species of waterfowl nest around the lake; kestrels and buzzards can be spotted in the woodland; and brown hares, stoats, weasels, grey and red squirrels can also be seen.
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The herons and buzzards have left for places more congenial to watching and listening for desperate scrambling through snow.
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In particular I am very concerned about the risk posed by the illegal use of poison to birds such as red kites, buzzards and hen harriers.
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I sat there, with the sun beating down on me, the wind whistling in my hair and the sound of a buzzard overhead looking for prey.
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After owls, U.K. government figures identify kestrels, common buzzards, and peregrine falcons as other raptors most likely to end up as roadkill.
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Her husband developed congestive heart failure and experienced frequent hallucinations while in the hospital, including an especially haunting mirage of buzzards circling above him.
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Birds include species of swan goose Anser cygnoides, crested honey buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus, black kite Milvus migrans, hawk owl Sunia ulula, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus, hazel grouse Tetrastes bonasia, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus and great bustard Otis tarda.
Lake Baikal Basin, Russian Federation
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Raptors, buzzards among them, swirled, checked and glided above Ivy Scar, then eased over the valley to hunt and scavenge the stone-walled fields.
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Done, he dragged brush over it so buzzards circling high above the manzanita-covered hills wouldn't eat of it and die.
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The quaint grossbeak, the ugly heron, the dirty-black buzzard, the hideous water-goose, with his featherless body and satiric head, start up from their nooks as you enter; the water moccasin slides warily into the slime; and if you see a sudden movement in the centre of a leaden-colored mass, with a flash or two of white in it, you will do well to beware, for half a dozen alligators may show themselves at home there.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified);
How to get back to nature when camping
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On the other hand, besides the experiments of Audubon and that one by myself, Mr. Bachman has tried in the United States many varied plans, showing that neither the turkey-buzzard (the species dissected by Professor Owen) nor the gallinazo find their food by smell.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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We didn't catch that fish, or any fish, but we had a great day with kingfishers, peregrine falcons and buzzards for company.
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Probably Honey Buzzards are regular passage migrants there, at least in autumn.
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Buzzards soar overhead at a great height.
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Scratched and beplastered with mud, they crawled out in muck which gripped them to the knees, and roosted like buzzards upon the butt of a prostrate live-oak.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer
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A buzzard—not an American vulture, but the European hawk buteo buteo, which looks like a small golden eagle—killed and devoured a pigeon in our front garden this morning.
The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour: Elizabeth E. Wein
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The air at this season is full of great birds -- eagles, buzzards, hawks, and falcons -- soaring in circles to look out for prey among the flocks of wild swans, white geese, bernicle geese and brent geese, duck and teal, which cover the backwaters and the marshes and shallow lagoons.
Pioneers in Canada
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
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It features free-flying displays and an opportunity for people to see at close hand some 30 different birds of prey, including eagles, buzzards and falcons.
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A light onshore breeze ruffled the surface of the bay, a few feet away I watched a turkey buzzard or vulture fly by.
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`Never thought I'd be proud of the old buzzard ," Chris muttered beside Livy.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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It is situated in the Dartmoor National Park, amidst gentle rolling hills and woods where buzzards nest.
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A more extreme development of this pattern is seen in the kestrel, peregrine and buzzard prey assemblages.
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The air in the Lake District this weekend was so clear and quiet except for bird calls - buzzards, curlew, woodpeckers, geese and owls.
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Among birds of prey, buzzards and hawks of the genus Buteo are an extremely successful group that is widely distributed, being absent only in Australia, Antarctica, and most parts of the oriental region.
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Between March and September the rare osprey visits and there are duck, geese, swans, grouse, herons and buzzards.
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After owls, U.K. government figures identify kestrels, common buzzards, and peregrine falcons as other raptors most likely to end up as roadkill.
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It features free-flying displays and an opportunity for people to see at close hand some 30 different birds of prey, including eagles, buzzards and falcons.
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In the lower reaches of the river, red-crowned crane Grus japonensis (EN), hooded crane Grus monacha* (VU), oriental stork Ciconia boyciana (EN), black stork Ciconia nigra*, yellow-legged buttonquail Turnix tanki, Far Eastern curlew Numenius madagascariensis and grey-faced buzzard Butastur indicus* are present.
Central Sikhote-Alin, Russian Federation
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A network of tracks lead to places where waders and wildfowl can be seen in their thousands, where buzzards ‘sky dance’ and where puffins, razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes jostle for space.
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Raptors - particularly buzzards, sparrowhawks and peregrines - are in abundance in the Scottish countryside.
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Scientists there have recorded 26 species of raptors, the two most numerous species being the steppe buzzard (Buteo buteo vulpinus) and the steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis).
Eritrean coastal desert
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Otters, badgers, kestrels, lapwing, buzzards and kingfishers are just a few of the animals and birds under threat along the Clanrye River between the Belfast and Tandragee Roads north of Newry.
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But the common buzzard, found across much of Europe and Asia, is a hawk, not a vulture.
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The air in the Lake District this weekend was so clear and quiet except for bird calls - buzzards, curlew, woodpeckers, geese and owls.
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He spent much of 1899, when he was 32, steeping himself in the literature of aeronautics; he scrutinised the flight patterns of hawks, buzzards and pigeons; he assembled and flew kites.
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As well as grouse watching, Dan and his colleagues also give informal tours around the reserve for young ornithologists keen to spot merlins, buzzards and ospreys.
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In an ironic foreshadowing of a pivotal courtroom scene that will put Janie at the mercy of human vultures, the hungry buzzards focus on the ‘yaller’ mule.
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The beautiful underfoot carpets of blue gentium delight the eye and, above fly buzzards, eagles, skylarks and wheatears.
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At one hundred meters in length by twenty-five meters in diameter, the Buzzard resembles a section of gray pipe with blunt rounded ends.
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I'll take the turkey, and let you have the buzzard; or, _you can take the buzzard_, and I'll keep the turkey. '
The Boy Hunters
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Native birds, a category including buzzards, dippers and swifts, showed rises in population of 14 per cent in the region during the period, in contrast to England overall, where there was no change in numbers.
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Mundy wrote The Buzzard especially at the request of Cecilia McDowall, whose initially rather spiky setting, using octaves and ninths, sets the scene for a clever contrast at the moment the bird soars, with accelerating swooping music.
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Forest wagtails, flycatchers, rose-ringed parakeet and black-crested buzzard always made the metro their home.
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Raptors amongst the stabilised sands include 15 breeding pairs (about a tenth of the world's population) of the Spanish imperial eagle Aquila heliaca adalberti (VU), black vulture Aegypius monachus, short-toed eagle Circaetus gallicus, booted eagle Hieraaetus pennatus, buzzard Buteo buteo, black kite Milvus migrans, black-shouldered kite Elanus caeruleus, red kite M. milvus, and hobby Falco subbuteo.
Doñana National Park, Spain
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In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers.
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The herons and buzzards have left for places more congenial to watching and listening for desperate scrambling through snow.
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While I remain skeptical about the effects of lead ammo used in grouse, deer, elk, etc., if it is ever proved that the lead from my guns is hurting any species, swans, raptors, buzzards, etc.,
Thoughts on Lead Bans
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No life stirred except where, against the sky, buzzards planed and glided on motionless wings.
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So this buzzard is boarding a plane, carrying a couple of dead possums, but the stewardess says,
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Otters, badgers, kestrels, lapwing, buzzards and kingfishers are just a few of the animals and birds under threat along the Clanrye River between the Belfast and Tandragee Roads north of Newry.
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A network of tracks lead to places where waders and wildfowl can be seen in their thousands, where buzzards ‘sky dance’ and where puffins, razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes jostle for space.
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A marvellous fopling he will make in the sedate circles of owls and buzzards!
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.
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Watching a buzzard in flight is very similar to watching a glider - it just seems to float effortlessly.
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Other birds include a huge American bald eagle called Liberty, buzzards, Harris hawks, vultures, laughing kookaburras and a pelican.
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What about the hunter on safari whose handlers dress and skin the game, and take every precious morsel from the gut pile that most of use leave for the canines, buzzards and maggots?
The Meat Not Eaten
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The buzzard periodically breaks its thread, soars into the wind, spins round and takes up its west-facing kite position again.
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Missing/mutilated eyes and soft internal organs are explained as the action of carrion feeding insects such as blowflies, and opportunistic or carrion birds such as vultures and buzzards which are known to direct themselves toward an animal's eyes, and to enter the body through the openings of the mouth and anus in order to feed on soft internal organs.
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I've seen this buzzard mobbed by other members of the local crow tribe, the rooks, plenty of times before.
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While unfortunately few phylogenetic studies include both species together, a comprehensive recent DNA-based phylogeny found the two to be well apart, with Polyboroides down with Old World vultures and honey buzzards, while Geranospiza was in the buteonine clade that also includes Buteo (of course) and Leucopternus (Lerner et al. 2005).
Archive 2006-05-01
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An 'wuss - you betrayed us, an' the coloured folks an 'all, with yo' fine talk an 'promises, an' gittin 'us trapped an' all git kilt, 'cos high'n mighty John Brown ain't got the brains of a buzzard!
THE NUMBERS
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It many ways, there are many people like the buzzard, the bat and the bumblebee.
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In the woods I heard both green and great spotted woodpecker whilst overhead a pair of buzzards soared in a spectacular display flight.
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
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Its enemies, circling like bold buzzards, want to serve up our schools to the marketplace, where the point of reference is what maximizes profit rather than what benefits children.
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Grouse, ravens and buzzards may be seen, and red deer are common.
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In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers.
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
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The only sound was three screaming buzzards soaring above me, there wasn't a soul around even though it was 10 a.m., it was cold and I could see the waves hitting the rocks, shooting up the spray.
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The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards.
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Between March and September the rare osprey visits and there are duck, geese, swans, grouse, herons and buzzards.
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Can you hatch eagles by setting a goose on buzzard eggs?
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Burnett says young pheasants are especially vulnerable to buzzard attacks.
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It would sure puzzle me if that old buzzard ever told the truth about anything.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified);
How to get back to nature when camping
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Generally, I'd be sitting in there with the rest of them old buzzards while some do-gooder tried to get us to sing hymns.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
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Ten species of waterfowl nest around the lake; kestrels and buzzards can be spotted in the woodland; and brown hares, stoats, weasels, grey and red squirrels can also be seen.
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Carrion is laid out to attract the feathered carnivores, and regular diners include whitenecked ravens, lanner falcons, jackal buzzards, black eagles and cape vultures.
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The buzzard survived his ordeal, although he was extremely dehydrated and had suffered some damage to the muscles in one of his wings.
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Still, I saw a family of deer, a blue jay, a New Forest pony suckling, and a buzzard wheeling so low I could count the individual pinions extended at its wingtips.
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Generally, I'd be sitting in there with the rest of them old buzzards while some do-gooder tried to get us to sing hymns.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
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Birds as diverse as buzzards and coal tits are regularly seen.
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Birds of prey such as snowy owls, short-eared owls (Asio flammeus), jaegers (skuas – Stercorarius spp.), and rough-legged buzzards (Buteo lagopus) are lemming and vole specialists that are only able to breed at peak lemming densities and which aggregate in areas with high lemming densities.
Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
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Birdlife is good and include Augur buzzard, Denhams bustard, white-necked raven and purple crested lourie.
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I sat there, with the sun beating down on me, the wind whistling in my hair and the sound of a buzzard overhead looking for prey.
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We were glad of this occupation during the tedious business of smoking the bears’ meat, and availed ourselves of the leisure time by also preparing for stuffing the condor and the turkey buzzard, urubu or black vulture — for I could not determine to which species the smaller bird belonged.
Swiss Family Robinson
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A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Live-love-create
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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She was fast asleep like a buzzard that had been scoping out prey all day long in a field.
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Other birds include a huge American bald eagle called Liberty, buzzards, Harris hawks, vultures, laughing kookaburras and a pelican.
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Falcons, buzzards and golden eagles are sometimes observed but these are occasional visitors.
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Otters live here, and you may spy buzzards quartering above the bare branches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forest wagtails, fly catchers, black crested buzzard, open billed storks and egrets are some of the migratory birds one can sight at the Guindy National Park during winter.
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A buzzard dropped down to watch, a heavy twin-rotor helicopter thudded over, a jet lanced through, and a gamekeeper rolled past in a 4x4, that was the traffic for the day.
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Buzzard rises up, dives, catches & crushes kite-buzzard in claws, shits on several archers & a priestess, scoops up meat, & eats with clenched brows in limbs of huge cactus, deep in Southwest.
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En route she encounters buzzards, a peregrine and high brown fritillary butterflies, otters and kingfishers.
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Raptors - particularly buzzards, sparrowhawks and peregrines - are in abundance in the Scottish countryside.
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The second tale was also to do with predators, and the present obsession with preserving every hawk and buzzard on the wing.
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However I did log a woodchat shrike, numerous barn and red-rumped swallows, a veritable swarm of common swifts, and a common buzzard.
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For those of you unfamiliar, this is not the old turkey vulture or buzzard that is commonly found, this is a slightly smaller, stockier bird built more like a raven or a raptor.
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman
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The buzzard theme was because of the desert xeriscape on the label, with cactus and a dead looking hispanic gentleman, to my hazy recollection.
Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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Boasting buzzards, merlins, kestrels, peregrines, and ospreys, the county has ten of a total UK species of 15-making it one of the nation's key habitats.
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If the putrid odor of dead flesh had permeated the hot desert air, those buzzards would no longer be circling.
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
