[pbs] OT - Buzzards

Russell Stafford, Odyssey Bulbs odysseybulbs at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 6 08:37:32 EDT 2007


I believe that the officially endorsed common name is "turkey 
vulture" -- "buzzard" is, or at least used to be, frowned upon.

But these things do change.

Russell

At 07:30 AM 6/6/2007, you wrote:
>What we have here are not vultures, though they are usually so named by
>folks. They're buzzards. And in my part of New Jersey there are two
>species, the typical red-headed turkey buzzard and the (usually
>described as a more Southern species) the black-headed buzzard.

Russell Stafford
Odyssey Bulbs
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South Lancaster, MA  01561
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