But the common buzzard, found across much of Europe and Asia, is a hawk, not a vulture. |
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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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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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A buzzard has strong, thick, feathered legs and walks with a dignified gait. |
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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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Forest wagtails, flycatchers, rose-ringed parakeet and black-crested buzzard always made the metro their home. |
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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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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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Birdlife is good and include Augur buzzard, Denhams bustard, white-necked raven and purple crested lourie. |
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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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The common buzzard bears little resemblance to the vulture, which is a buzzard in nicknameonly. |
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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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A turkey buzzard crashed through my front right windshield when I was flying a light multi-engine airplane in Baja, Calif. |
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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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Meanwhile, whether it's a rare honey buzzard one day or a champion racehorse the next, the animal hospitals remain busy and stimulating places. |
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I just watched a showdown on the lawn here between a brown buzzard and a large black-and-gray hooded crow. |
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A honey buzzard set off in heavy pursuit of a Bonelli's eagle, and a clean looking Scavenger vulture flew on in solitary splendour. |
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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 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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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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Birds of prey like the owl, the sparrowhawk and the buzzard also live here. |
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I have heard varying reports of golden eagles, kites and merlins, but an investigation has almost every time led to the visitor being identified as a buzzard. |
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They seem focused on wild prey – I've seen them overfly a whole field of lambs and go for a greylag goose or snatch a rabbit caught by a buzzard. |
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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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Almost overnight, the iconic predator of all paleontology and the Cretaceous Period's menacing beast of prey became … a waddling buzzard. |
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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 area is a paradise for many bird species such as the vulture, buzzard, hawk, bearded vulture and sparrowhawk. |
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The vultures of this landscape came to call Cardinal, goldfinch, titmouse, turkey buzzard — to snow me in till spring ends my solitude. |
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A second goshawk and a buzzard were also caught in a trap and the gamekeeper was recorded placing them in a sack and carrying them off. |
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The Guardian's Patrick Barkham says the resurgent buzzard would get his vote. |
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It means that to increase the specific impulse it is necessary to increase the volume of products combustion in the buzzard. |
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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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This crow skulked and cowered up to the buzzard, sometimes lying low to the ground, sometimes popping up into the air, always trying to stay behind the enemy. |
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Burnett says young pheasants are especially vulnerable to buzzard attacks. |
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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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More common species, such as the European honey buzzard Pernis apivorus, can be counted in hundreds of thousands in autumn. |
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The common buzzard breeds in woodlands, usually on the fringes, but favours hunting over open land. |
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Their record player was a bird with a big beak and their waste disposal unit was a hungry buzzard who lived underneath the sink. |
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On Sunday, I took a 30-minute walk around two desolate arable fields near Wells-next-the-Sea Wells-next-the-Sea Wells-next-the-Sea Wells-next-the-Seand, possinly, a rough-legged buzzard. |
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Birds include the golden eagle, lesser spotted eagle, red kite, northern hobby, buzzard, eagle owl, a few species of owls, black grouse, capercaillie and hazel grouse. |
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The young honey buzzard was being tracked by satellite on its 3000-mile flight from Scotland to Africa. |
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Overhead you should see red kite, common buzzard and raven. |
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It is not only the long odyssey of Cronkley that strikes me, but also its vast presence in the living moment: the cold updraughts it billows above the crest so that a fly-sized buzzard hangs motionless. |
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There's a honey buzzard as big as an eagle feasting on a huge bees' honeycomb just 50 metres away. |
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But the 36-year-old only had time to rattle off a few shots before it was snatched up by a common buzzard, which carried it off in its talons. |
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It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. |
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The common buzzard often spots prey by waiting on a prominent perch and scanning the ground for movement. |
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A bunch of dimeless promoters and sponges have been buzzing around him, the kind who can smell a sucker faster than a buzzard can sight a corpse. |
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Other bird species resident to the Lake District include the buzzard, dipper, peregrine and raven. |
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Its call is a thin piping sound, similar to but less mewling than the common buzzard. |
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We would 'make time' to go into nature and hug a tree, look at the wonder of a flower, see a butterfly flutter across a patch of grassland, listen to a bird sing, watch a buzzard or kite gliding in the breeze. |
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Last month on Kirkby Moss, Chris had buzzard, oystercatcher, two jay, blackcap, corn bunting, stock dove and 200 woodpigeons. |
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A police raid two years ago found two bald eagle eggs, two honey buzzard eggs, four Egyptian vulture eggs, four stuffed owls and a Montagu's harrier. |
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The young common buzzard also suffered injuries to its body. |
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Another visitor was the honey buzzard, with a record four sightings. |
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But as we were watching it, a common buzzard took an unhealthy interest. |
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The fauna of the region includes herbivores such as reindeer and musk ox as well as carnivores such as wolverine, polar fox, gyrfalcon, rough-legged buzzard and golden eagle. |
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Steadily increasing, I suspect the latest BTO Bird Atlas survey for 2007-11 will reveal a population explosion for the common buzzard among many other gems of information. |
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