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What is a buzzard?

What is a buzzard? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
  2. In North America, a general term for scavenging birds such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus), and the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
  3. (derogatory) In North America, a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
  4. (archaic) A blockhead; a dunce.
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Red deer stags greeted me on the ridge crest and a buzzard wheeled away over the corrie below.
Forest wagtails, flycatchers, rose-ringed parakeet and black-crested buzzard always made the metro their home.
Birdlife is good and include Augur buzzard, Denhams bustard, white-necked raven and purple crested lourie.
An unusual physiotherapy session involving holding the buzzard while it flaps its wings, is now planned, to prepare the bird for release.
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.
The common buzzard bears little resemblance to the vulture, which is a buzzard in nicknameonly.

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