Reading, UK - just feeding my addiction to photoing Buzzards and Kites.

  • HM05@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      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.