| 单词 | buzzard |
| 例句 | She had seen men hung from trees and left for buzzards and crows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For monotonous months I had circled the mail on the hall table like a buzzard, poking through endless boring letters and bills before turning away each day in blank disappointment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It couldn’t really be people playing baseball up there, he knew, with only the hawks and turkey buzzards to watch. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain wondered: will the people here let the buzzards have them? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in a dark room, with the windows closed and the curtains drawn, the shadows descend, circling like buzzards over a reeking lunch. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Wildlife was limited to buzzards, raccoons the size of huskies, domestic pets left to run feral, and hordes of cockroaches that had regained the ability to fly like their southern cousins. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z T. P. lay down in the ditch and I sat down, watching the bones where the buzzards ate Nancy, flapping black and slow and heavy out of the ditch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He runs through the darkness as words swirl in his mind, and buzzing, like one hundred buzzards, fills his ears. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His father moved the buzzard with his toe. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I slid then, slow and painful, ripping out my hair so that a clump of me stayed pinned to the tree—nesting material for low-flying buzzards. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I remember the sweeping lovely dance of high buzzards against the sky and Tom looking long up at them, but I can’t remember that he ever said anything about them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Jody,” he explained, “the buzzard didn’t kill the pony. Don’t you know that?” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z And in a circle around him stood the buzzards, waiting for the moment of death they know so well. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hush up, Jason. How can buzzards get in where Damuddy is. Father wouldn’t let them. Would you let a buzzard undress you. Hush up, now.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z "Nobody runs away from here. We don't need a fence. Know why? Because we've got the only water for a hundred miles. You want to run away? You'll be buzzard food in three days." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He looked up and saw a high circle of black buzzards, and the slowly revolving circle dropped lower and lower. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I could imagine the splash and jar of angry steel, the leap and struggle until the torn heart failed, and then, not too long later, the shadow of a buzzard, and another. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I win, you ugly, good-for-nothing buzzard, thought Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time we saw buzzards circling overhead, Dad would say that he recognized Buster among them and that he was coming back to thank us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “If he didn’t make it, it was supposed to be served at his funeral. I propose we drink it to celebrate the old buzzard’s death!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet—she had seen many a half-starved runaway brought back in chains, not enough flesh left on him to provide a decent meal for a buzzard. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We can look out our door and know when the butcher marché is open for business, if the big kapok tree down there is filled with black buzzards. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After he died, the guards left his body, and then the sea buzzards carried it off in pieces. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z We could see the buzzards gathering long before we got there. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “And when Nancy fell in the ditch and Roskus shot her and the buzzards came and undressed her.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Al is a buzzard, a vulture, an eater of carrion. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I’m telling you right here and now, with all the sincerity an old buzzard like me can muster, that I’m sorry for what I just said. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I remember when my sister and I were little, he would tell us that the store ran out of turkeys, so what we were having that year was Thanksgiving buzzard. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The camera crews, perched like buzzards on rooftops, only add to the effect. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He always said that when he died, we should put him on a mountaintop and let the buzzards and coyotes tear his body apart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, he had his head taken off when he hit a buzzard.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw a large black speck—maybe a buzzard—circling up from the fire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Three days later, like turkey buzzards settling on a corpse, the reporters came. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Those old buzzards circling in the sky made him go out and check. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Osage found themselves surrounded by predators—“a flock of buzzards,” as one member of the tribe complained at a council meeting. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Why can’t we just leave it for the buzzards and varmints to clean up?” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z That buzzard didn’t have an ounce of gratitude in him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Everybody enjoyed themselves to the highest and then finally the mule was left to the already impatient buzzards. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Over the hillside two big black buzzards sailed low to the ground and their shadows slipped smoothly and quickly ahead of them. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He threw a rock at the turkey buzzard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The frightened buzzards had settled back to the ground by the time we got there. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z A place for eagles and owls, falcons and kestrels, hawks and vultures, ospreys and buzzards, too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Another mile west some buzzards circled over the gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like she’d suddenly lit down out of the air like a buzzard or risen right up out of the bare ground around the rocks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Half-hour after daybreak the buzzards rise from the leafless billboard tree and flap away like the sound of old black satin dresses beat together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A coyote that seemed pretty tame lived with us for a while, and once Dad brought home a wounded buzzard that we named Buster. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z During the final wave, so many buzzards filled the screen that it was hard to move without getting dusted by one of them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A thousand buzzards held a flying meet and then went above the clouds and stayed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I could see buzzards circling high in the distance, which reminded me of that ingrate Buster. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They reminded Cora of the buzzards that chewed the flesh of the plantation dead when they were put on display. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The first buzzard sat on the pony’s head and its beak had just risen dripping with dark eye fluid. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tribune warned that “the hawks, buzzards, vultures, and other unclean beasts, creeping, crawling, and flying, of New York are reaching out to get control of the fair.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By changing my ostrich’s direction at a certain moment, I could get him to slam his stork into one of the oncoming buzzards. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Scout, you probably don’t know it, but the NAACP-paid lawyers are standing around like buzzards down here waiting for things like this to happen—” “You mean colored lawyers?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “See how he handles it, the sly old buzzard!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One time he said he thought buzzards was circling over his head waiting for him to get weak enough to fall. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, we’ve pretty much seen nothing but bunnies and buzzards since we left town. Came across the buck just yesterday out of sheer luck.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Nothing moved except some buzzards on the side of the road, pecking over an unrecognizable carcass. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He struck again and again, until the buzzard lay dead, until its head was red pulp. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt it was good for your soul to have buzzards and coyotes and snakes around. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Miss Hennepin edged closer, craning her stringy neck like a buzzard. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was pale as though he had not slept, and his eyes had the look of a weary buzzard’s. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Something had disturbed those buzzards and I thought I knew what it was. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Sign you really have bad breath: The turkey buzzard next to you edges away. Style Invitational Week 1299: OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z A short hike above the gorge leads to tangle of prayer flags and a good spot to watch upland buzzards circling on thermals, searching for rodents. Thinking of visiting Tibet? Amdo is one of the best places for first-timers. 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z A white man and an American Indian, the story goes, spend a day hunting together and manage to bag a turkey and a somewhat less bountiful buzzard. Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Almost overnight, the iconic predator of all paleontology and the Cretaceous Period’s menacing beast of prey became … a waddling buzzard. ArtsBeat: Amateur Hour: Jack Hitt Talks About an American Tradition 2012-05-16T19:53:00Z One morning, my partner and I were wandering across a stubble field in north-east Norfolk when I became captivated by the buoyant display flight of two common buzzards. After a breakdown, birdwatching brought me friendship, escape and a new love of nature 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z We tick off baboons, zebra, wildebeest, four kinds of buck, two dozen buzzards circling over a kill and a solitary giraffe regarding the train with philosophic interest. Next Time You're in Namibia 2010-07-15T08:05:00Z A buzzard stared impassively from the arcade of oak branches arching over the road. On Cumberland Island, you don’t have to choose between roughing it and pampering yourself 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “The buzzards are circling,” George says, but it’s not really a joke. Review: Election Night With the Gabriels, a Play in Real Time 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z It would be an arresting sight, the priest with a large raven on his shoulder; for they are large birds, bigger than buzzards. Strolling the ancient hillforts of southern England 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Stuffed gazelles, buzzards, gorillas, sheep and more reside within habitats that are painted and sculpted stage sets. Clayton Campbell's beasts of the wild and the cellular come to life at Coagula Curatorial 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z LaVette calls this seeming yen for misfortune “buzzard luck,” but beginning around 2003, her fortunes began to change with a string of critically acclaimed albums. Bettye LaVette Didn’t Know the Beatles’ ‘Blackbird.’ Then It Helped Her Fly. 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The loudest noise you normally hear is the call of the curlews or the mewing of buzzards overhead. Burning grand pianos on the Scottish border 2012-05-22T13:39:00Z I cross the Nueces River into rain and watch a buzzard picking at a deer carcass so thin and flattened it bounces up and down like a piece of cardboard. Driving Through the Heart of Texas 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z We see tap’s ancestors in her spirited rendition of the buzzard lope, a heel-toeing dance with West African roots. Review: Mourning in Tap Shoes at Jacob’s Pillow 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Now, isolated up in the Highlands, with only hares and buzzards for company, Leigh braced himself to venture into the dangerous contents of the memory stick. WikiLeaks: Strained relation, accusation ? and crucial revelations 2011-01-31T20:00:01Z "I'll take the turkey, and you the buzzard," he says, "or, if you prefer, you take the buzzard, and I'll take the turkey." Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Back at Lockhart Gardner, the buzzards were circling, with Will the carrion of choice. ArtsBeat: 'Good Wife' Watch: Alicia and the Blondes 2012-03-05T06:00:55Z Golden eagles and buzzards soar, and otters and grey seals share the rocky skerries. Scotland’s best Highland bothy weekend adventures 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z In his aviary “talkative English ravens as large as buzzards live unhappily with toucans,” a magazine reporter observed. Antiques: A Painter?s Menagerie of Birds and Beasts Comes Back to Life 2011-06-09T21:33:48Z You may as well tax me for a buzzard,” said George Jacobs, who insisted that he was no witch. Madness in Massachusetts 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z “And I said, ‘Yeah, I named him after Rozelle,’ ” he told the magazine, “which is a lie ’cause I wouldn’t name anyone after that buzzard.” Alex Karras, N.F.L. Lineman and Actor, Dies at 77 2012-10-10T17:24:05Z At the beginning, with alien buzzards circling and hyena creatures stalking, it looks like curtains for the battered, bloodied hero. ‘Riddick’: A leaner, meaner sequel comes into view 2013-09-05T17:12:39Z The frustrated American Indian replies — usually in some version of would-be comic pidgin English — "You talk all buzzard to me, and don't talk turkey." Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops) 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Of course, it didn’t sound like a buzzard. Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z The buzzard stops and becomes a star now. Tomas Transtromer, Crystalline Swedish Poet, Dies at 83 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z And, of course, in letting this be known, he's stirred up nests, of varmints, mayflies and buzzards, because class is as raging an issue today as in the Mitford days, only less clear. Are TV sitcoms too middle-class? 2011-01-30T00:04:16Z Over the years, Mr. Whitehead writes, Cora “had seen men hung from trees and left for buzzards and crows. Women carved open to the bones with the cat-o’-nine-tails. Review: ‘Underground Railroad’ Lays Bare Horrors of Slavery and Its Toxic Legacy 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Those who have not aligned themselves with Moore have received a sharp admonishment from the senator, who recently called those colleagues "buzzard cowards," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Donald Trump is cracking up the Georgia GOP 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z “It was starting to come back down, and there was like a buzzard caught in it,” Copas said. Tornado and other severe weather kill 3, damage homes, and knock out power in multiple states 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z She said similar cases have been documented for other related species, including the case of a white-tailed sea eagle, which adopted a common buzzard. Nature gone mad? Eagles kidnap baby hawk twins; kill one, raise other as their own 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z A runner has been left with painful claw marks on his head after being attacked by a buzzard. Buzzard attack leaves runner with six holes in his head 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Dozens of different species of wild birds were hit, including golden eagles, buzzards, herring gulls and gannets. Bird flu: Free range eggs return as clampdowns eased 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z One in particular strikes a chord for Whitner: “Horses, mules and hogs / all our cows is in the bogs / there they shall ever stay / till the buzzards take them away.” Their enslaved ancestor’s pottery sells for over $1 million. They get nothing. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z One of my former editors once told me not to mention a book’s cover in a review — that it cheapened the words inside by tying them to the work of the publicity and marketing buzzards. Review: 'Severance' author Ling Ma doubles down on surreal premises in 'Bliss Montage' 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Birds of prey—particularly those with large wings such as buzzards and eagles—are especially vulnerable to electrocution at power poles, says Graham Martin, an ornithologist at the University of Birmingham. Electrocuted birds are sparking wildfires 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z "A lot of people indeed have also been attacked by buzzards or at least getting swooped at, but maybe not actually being hit by them." Buzzard attack leaves runner with six holes in his head 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The buzzards are circling overhead, the road is empty as a moonlit prairie, and all’s right with the world. Ford F-150 Lightning first drive: quiet storm 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z “He is talking in code about how the slave people lay there until the buzzards picked the meat from their bones. That’s what he was talking about. His message was, ‘Treat us like people. Their enslaved ancestor’s pottery sells for over $1 million. They get nothing. 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z And migratory birds carried the H5N1 strain out of Asia, first to Europe, where it killed an array of water birds, predatorybirds, and scavengers such as buzzards. Record avian flu outbreak is threatening North America’s birds. Is the virus here to stay? 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z In February, two dead wild buzzards tested positive for bird flu in Jersey. Bird flu restrictions put in place to prevent spread on Jersey 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z The buzzard is the most common and widespread bird of prey in the UK. Buzzard attack leaves runner with six holes in his head 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z A buzzard spent the night wedged in a car's front grille after it was hit by an unwitting motorist. Buzzard survives after getting stuck in car grille 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Gerald, who had no memory or hope of copper hot lips — of firm upthrusting thighs to reinforce his flow, let tall walls and buzzards change the course of his river from south to north. Poem: For Freckle-Faced Gerald 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The buzzards have chosen the town of Bunn as a meeting place for the past year, and they’re congregating at every available location, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported. Buzzards settle in North Carolina town despite scare tactics 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The only noise we can hear comes from a lone buzzard circling overhead. Covid and house prices prompt woodland sales boost 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z "No buzzards, no body is my theory. And I haven’t seen any buzzards flying." Gabby Petito case: Florida cowboy says 'no surviving' swamp where police are searching for Brian Laundrie 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z "We gun owners will pull the trigger and leave the corpse for the buzzards." Did Marjorie Taylor Greene just break campaign finance rules by appearing in a super PAC ad? 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z He didn’t even know how to talk tough, or how to hide the glow of life before he was thrown in as “pigmeat” for the buzzards to eat. Poem: For Freckle-Faced Gerald 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, there were 28 buzzards perched on a cellular tower and another 21 at the high school across the street. Buzzards settle in North Carolina town despite scare tactics 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z As viewers would have seen on Tuesday, buzzard chicks hatched two-and-a-half weeks ago. BBC Springwatch at Wild Ken Hill: Behind the scenes 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The court heard Wood, an "avid birdwatcher", saw a feather fall from a buzzard and noticed a gold item in the field where it landed. Iron Age treasure: Man's metal detector to be destroyed over coin theft 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z He drove across the small town, past Sanchez’s house on Strawberry Alley, toward the buzzards circling in the sky. ‘Are you ready to go back?’ After covid-19, a poultry worker fears a return to work. 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z He recently compared his critics to “buzzards,” accusing them of using coronavirus deaths in a bid to discredit him. Mexican president defies leftist label in virus response 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Ally Leggett said she counted 58 buzzards in her yard, on the roof, along the fence and atop the garage at one point. Buzzards settle in North Carolina town despite scare tactics 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z "The buzzards are lovely to watch," says Miss Rance, as she monitors the screens. BBC Springwatch at Wild Ken Hill: Behind the scenes 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Since last year’s harvest the farmer has left the fields alone and they have quickly become a haven for wildlife, with foxes, roe deer, buzzards, a kestrel and barn owls making appearances. Wildlife through the window: what readers have spotted during lockdown 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z That is life as a lottery pick for the Knicks, for whom unusual happenings are the norm and the media buzzards are always hovering. Learning the Hard Way What It Means to Be a Top Pick for the Knicks 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z “But the buzzards like them. They like to roost up there; it’s fun to watch them fly. We don’t give them a hard time.” Overgrown Lincoln property draws complaints from neighbors 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Commonly called buzzards, the birds are black or turkey vultures. Buzzards settle in North Carolina town despite scare tactics 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z "The buzzard nest, for example, is right up high and it's something you would not get to see, so it's nice getting that view into their daily lives," she says. BBC Springwatch at Wild Ken Hill: Behind the scenes 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z He was trying to see whether the bird’s nest some 15 feet below was being inhabited by a white-tailed sea eagle or a buzzard. Opinion | I Had a Gloriously Wild Childhood. That’s Why I Wrote ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z It was a really big bird, like a buzzard. Bird of prey 'grabs' Chihuahua in garden 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Apparently it was too demoralizing for the players to see all those buzzards circling overhead. Sideline Chatter: Are we sure those kids didn’t help her out, Fred Flintstone style? 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In the “Angry Birds” video games, you use a slingshot to lob flightless buzzards at wobbly fortresses stacked with snickering green pigs. Review: Exuberantly silly 'The Angry Birds Movie 2' flies higher than the first 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Resident Melissa Lyons raises two cattle on the levee and says “the only things thriving are the buzzards.” Reeling from floods, Mississippi OKs some extra deer feeding 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z My father never found out whether the nest in the cliff belonged to a white-tailed sea eagle or a buzzard. Opinion | I Had a Gloriously Wild Childhood. That’s Why I Wrote ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z In Wales in 2017 there were only three confirmed bird killings - of a poisoned peregrine falcon, and a red kite and buzzard, both shot. Illegal bird killings quadruple in a year 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z She lingered closer than the buzzard’s nest, keeping an eye on the teenagers, who were forbidden to dance too close or to “inappropriate” songs, such as “Gettin’ You Home.” Texas once had 1,000 dance halls. Now there’s a rush to save those that remain 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Each visit, they arrived to hundreds of ravens and crows, many smaller birds and the occasional circling eagle or buzzard. Hundreds of Reindeer Died by Lightning. Their Carcasses Became a Laboratory. 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z This fight between a drowning buzzard and a coot defending its chicks was snapped by Naomi Portnoy, near Papendrecht in the Netherlands. Moons, memories and melees — May’s best science images 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z To those who believe that once the Stanley Cup playoffs start the Washington Capitals have no luck at all except buzzard luck, there are now several big, fat exhibits to the contrary. Perspective | Could it be? The Capitals are finally getting the right kind of luck in the playoffs. 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Immediately all the Washington buzzards — many from his own stinking party — viciously attack Mr. Trump for doing exactly what he promised to do during his campaign. Enough with the so-called White House chaos, already 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Elders supervised young dancers from the “buzzard’s nest,” a platform near the entrance, ensuring they didn’t get too familiar. Texas once had 1,000 dance halls. Now there’s a rush to save those that remain 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z “You’re a knight jousting on an ostrich, trying to defeat the opponents: enemy knights riding buzzards.” 5 video games from the 1980s worth playing again today | Provided by Living Computers 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z After the buzzards stopped circling, after clues stopped coming in, after the Calverts were legally declared dead in 2009, the armchair detectives continued to work overtime. 10 years later, a couple’s disappearance still confounds 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z In the raid, police also found bags containing feathers from owls and buzzards, as well as pendants made from birds of prey feathers. Man who kept owl heads in jam jars fined 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z I don’t see a single buzzard in that sky. A Wet and Warm Spring, Then 200,000 Dead Saigas 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Alas, the unlucky bird proved to be a Common buzzard Buteo buteo, not an osprey at all. Raptors Once More (Raptors, Part 2) 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Ramsburg suspected the bothersome buzzards might be scouting a new roosting perch. Unwanted visitors: Vultures perch seasonally at woman’s home 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Ahead of kickoff, this sounds destined to be some spare occasion, with buzzards flying overhead, bruises forming left and right and somebody winning 2-0, in overtime. The Alabama-Georgia national title game feels like it should be played in a backyard 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z He cut an extraordinary figure - gloomy and aquiline, with a face that suggested an affronted buzzard. How French 'Non' blocked UK in Europe 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The charity said the attacks were recorded on raptors, including red kites, peregrine falcons and buzzards, that were shot, trapped or poisoned between 2012 and 2016. Nearly 500 attacks on birds of prey 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z The liquefied waste mist drifts on to her property, and “dead boxes” filled with rotting hogs sit near her family’s cemetery, attracting buzzards, gnats and swarms of large black flies. A million tons of feces and an unbearable stench: life near industrial pig farms 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Ranua is home to 200 animals, including 50 other Arctic species such as arctic foxes, geese, cranes, minks, buzzards, owls, otters, reindeer and wolverine. Summer treat: Polar bears frolic in donated load of snow 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z As the train involved in the collision approached the bridge, engineer Michael Ryan saw “what he thought were buzzards up ahead,” according to a CSX court filing. Trial to decide if railroad shares blame in movie crew death 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Beijing hit back at critics, with its official news agency attacking the “naysayers” and “fear mongers” it claimed were hovering over Xi’s plan like buzzards. China's Xi lays out $900bn Silk Road vision amid claims of empire-building 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z Last year, four buzzards and four red kites were shot, while two other red kites were poisoned. Nearly 500 attacks on birds of prey 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Glimpsed through the cracked windshield are cattle grazing in fields dotted with cactus and buzzards soaring overhead. Donald Judd’s Private Retreat 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Peregrines will bully and sometimes kill much bigger birds, from buzzards to crows. Flying high: why peregrine falcons are kings of the urban jungle 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z That football looked wayward and sickening, almost as if surrounded by buzzards. Ohio State’s Tyler Durbin gets a crash course in stresses of kicking 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z It concluded a downer week for Houston, which didn’t get into the Big 12 when the buzzards circled over the expansion possibilities there. Campus Cleanup: Penn State just one of the college football teams rising from the dead 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The buzzards may eventually be released into the wild. Animals Rescued From the 'World’s Worst Zoo' 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Farmers watch red kites and buzzards re-colonising following the end of persecution; pigeons benefiting from autumn sowing; and barn owls increasing thanks to conservation measures. UK wildlife decline has slowed, but not stopped - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Members of Congress continued to circle like buzzards waiting for the plodding U.S. SolarCity Announces Layoffs, Co-Founders Take Massive Salary Cuts 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Upland buzzards and saker falcons feed primarily on pikas, too; one way to spot a pika colony on the grasslands is to look for a buzzard flying overhead or perched on a power pylon. China tried to drive a furry mammal to extinction. Maybe that wasn’t such a good idea. 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The latter is reprised on his new album, Earth, an environmentally-themed live album that - unusually - overdubs his performances with the sounds of the animal kingdom, from bees to buzzards; and cows to cockerels. Neil Young gets back to nature - BBC News 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z There were also five monkeys, an emu, a pelican, two buzzards, two porcupines, two tortoises, and a doe. Animals Rescued From the 'World’s Worst Zoo' 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The other day in the grandstand a black buzzard, startled by the rare presence of people, clumped quickly and noisily along one of the aisles for about 20 yards then flew away into the woods. A look back at Jungle Park Speedway 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z He’s witnessed deer, beavers, mink, and once even saw a group of 200 buzzards flying south for the winter. Park opening fulfills couple’s longtime vision 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Yes, a group of the birds — sometimes also called buzzards — is known as a “committee.” Philly to raze vacant house that's home to turkey vultures 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The 19-year-old who once nursed a bobcat dubbed “Roscoe” back to health - along with a deer, an owl and a buzzard - is rapidly making a name for himself in archery. Straight shooter: Young archer taking aim at Olympic spot 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The buzzard is now at little or no risk of becoming endangered in the UK, in contrast to some other birds of prey, such as the hen harrier and the white-tailed eagle. How buzzards came to fly over the UK again - BBC News 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “He dumped our daughter’s body like a bag of trash,” Graham said, noting that the remains sat for weeks in the wooded area, “to be picked over by buzzards and vultures.” Jesse Matthew pleads guilty in slayings of college students 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Below, there are buzzards and seabirds, and I think I see a small pod of whales. Despite what golf fans think, it's not easy being in a blimp 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z A group of buzzards sunned themselves as Sanchez disappeared in sawgrass marsh. Hiiiiissssss! Why Florida needs your help to hunt pythons down 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Bay loves his airborne shots, and his camera circles the engagement zones so often and so frantically, it feels like he mounted GoPros on the local buzzards as they waited out the battle. Michael Bay's Benghazi movie is an unexpectedly apolitical Rorschach test 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z A gamekeeper from Berwick was repeatedly refused a licence to trap and kill buzzards, which he said were taking his baby pheasants. How buzzards came to fly over the UK again - BBC News 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z As for Mrs. Boynton Robinson, he said, “Let the buzzards eat her.” Amelia Boynton Robinson, activist beaten on Selma bridge, dies at 104 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z It has a number of modifications, including speakers that blast the sounds of predator birds, such as eagles, hawks and buzzards, a strobe light and a coat of black paint. Canadians Find Another Use for Drones: Chasing Geese 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Runners and walkers can find themselves getting too close to buzzards' nests without knowing it. Buzzard attack was 'like being hit by a rock' - BBC News 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z "It's a violent thug. It attacks anything that comes into its airspace - it even tries to chase big birds like buzzards. It has filthy table manners." Purple Emperor: The butterfly that feeds on rotting flesh - BBC News 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Culling by gamekeepers meant that, by 1875, buzzards were only to be found in western parts of Britain, the population reaching a nadir by the start of the 20th Century. How buzzards came to fly over the UK again - BBC News 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z North Wales Police's rural crime unit recently launched a campaign to target bird of prey poisoners after attacks on rare peregrine falcons and buzzards. 'Tougher sentence' calls for bird of prey killers - BBC News 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The only noise comes from a light wind blowing through the just-budding trees, the river lapping at the shore and a few buzzards hungrily picking at the carcass of a raccoon. A famed Virginia Indian tribe seeks federal recognition amid casino fears 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Neil Collier was running in Scotland when a buzzard attacked him, he said it ''was like having a rock thrown at you'' Buzzard attack was 'like being hit by a rock' - BBC News 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z As the leather began to dry and shrink, buzzards would be seen circling overhead, waiting for the inevitable. Sprint, Amazon Zero In On RadioShack As The End Seems Near 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z "In the next few years, almost every person in England should be able to see a buzzard near where they live with a minimum of difficulty," he says. How buzzards came to fly over the UK again - BBC News 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The team was able to recover prints from the feathers of six species that they tested: kestrels, sparrowhawks, buzzards, red kites, golden eagles and white-tailed eagles, Wildlife crime prints 'breakthrough' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z These included the buzzard, magpie, jackdaw and wood pigeon. Loft insulation 'aids bird decline' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z A birdwatcher passing the farm later came upon a dying buzzard. Landowner fine 'legal milestone' 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Allen Lambert, who worked on the Stody Estate, in Norfolk was convicted of deliberately killing ten buzzards and a sparrowhawk and possessing items used to prepare poison baits. The worst case of bird of prey poisoning? 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Police Scotland confirmed that 16 of them - 12 red kites and four buzzards - were probably accidentally killed by pest control measures. Bird of prey deaths 'not deliberate' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The death of six buzzards in Aberdeenshire is being investigated by police. Death of six buzzards investigated 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Early last year, Osburn came across the body of what was later determined by police to be that of a teenage girl perhaps as young as 14 years old, partially eaten by buzzards. Murder on the Pipelines: Drug Cartels Turn Texas Oil Routes Into Killing Zones 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z A landowner has been fined £675 over the actions of a gamekeeper who illegally poisoned a buzzard. Landowner fine 'legal milestone' 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The man’s sister “wanted to know everything, where, if he had suffered, if coyotes and buzzards had gotten to him, what he was wearing,” recalls Ramírez. Hunting Humans: The Americans Taking Immigration Into Their Own Hands That's what those old buzzards are afraid of, so let's enjoy watching them squirm. Hong Kong Democracy Poll Puts Beijing in a Corner 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Authorities say they found the carcass on Sunday due to buzzards circling overhead. Bear carcass found in Nicholas County 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z He charts the entire gruesome process with excruciating detail, beginning with his meeting with the hunters and ending with the buzzards' attempt at scavenging the last scraps from an elephant's corpse. The gruesome chronicle of a legal elephant hunt 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Bell's actions resulted in the death of a buzzard in December 2012. Landowner fine 'legal milestone' 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z A red kite, a golden eagle and four buzzards were poisoned in 2013, double the number for the previous year but well below a peak of 30 in 2009. Highland raptor deaths rise to 16 2014-04-01T18:00:09Z The nine red kites and four buzzards were found at different, but nearby, locations since 18 March. Thirteen raptors found poisoned 2014-03-28T11:47:43Z The report was published as police investigated the deaths of 11 birds of prey - seven red kites and four buzzards - in Ross-shire over the last week. Raptor poisoning numbers double 2014-03-28T00:02:56Z Six of the raptors - five red kites and a buzzard - were found at different, but nearby, locations between 18 and 24 March. Highland raptor deaths rise to 11 2014-03-27T16:10:36Z Nicknamed “The Valley,” its logo is an ominous buzzard with blood dripping from its talons. In the D.C. fire department, a cold war simmers between the chief and the rank and file 2014-03-02T01:21:00Z Birds circled above Rod Laver Arena, and it seemed fair to wonder if a buzzard or two was not up there among them. Wawrinka Defeats an Ailing Nadal to Win Australian Open 2014-01-26T11:35:34Z Ms Shaw said it would set up a new nature reserve to provide a home for a variety of birds including skylarks, linnets, yellowhammers, buzzards and kestrels. Trust aims to buy Dambuster airfield 2013-07-20T06:28:07Z Left free for an evening, they were capable of killing a dozen domestic sheep before dawn, eating their fill and leaving the rest for the buzzards. Cougars, Glamorous Killers, Expand Their Range 2013-06-10T17:36:20Z The other dead birds are also red kites and buzzards. Highland raptor deaths rise to 11 2014-03-27T16:10:36Z Historically, buzzards were absent from much of eastern Britain because of persecution. Gamekeeper poisoned birds of prey 2013-01-10T18:56:44Z Still, “The buzzards are circling.” Expect furious Google opponents to forum-shop, particularly to press the Department of Justice, down the road from the FTC, for more concessions. Lesson From The Google Case: There Is No Such Thing As Antitrust Policy 2012-12-17T20:16:53Z Tests confirmed 20 raptors, including a golden eagle, seven buzzards and four red kites, were poisoned in 2011. Bird poisoning toll 'depressing' 2012-11-29T00:55:33Z Deliberate poisoning resulted in the deaths of a golden eagle, two peregrine falcons, two sparrowhawks, four red kites and seven buzzards. Drop in animal poisoning cases 2012-09-21T12:14:10Z Ministers have changed their minds on what jet fighters they want for aircraft carriers, on how evidence could be kept secret in court and even how buzzards should be controlled. Coalition government: End of term report 2012-07-18T07:52:01Z Or all there will be at Buzzard Point will be buzzards. New D.C. United stadium seems like a no-brainer 2012-07-11T15:35:00Z Ministers said they would look at other ways of controlling buzzards "in light of public concerns expressed". Ministers in U-turn over buzzards 2012-05-30T15:05:56Z But do harriers, buzzards and other raptors really have a devastating effect on local game bird populations? Persecutors or persecuted? 2012-06-01T01:28:34Z The recovery of the buzzard is being celebrated by the public after many decades of persecution. Ministers in U-turn over buzzards 2012-05-30T11:15:52Z The Countryside Alliance welcomed the government's study, saying it showed the issue of predation by buzzards was being taken seriously. Buzzard capture plans condemned 2012-05-24T01:16:32Z He described getting lost in his new surroundings, scaling a rock-faced mountain, water bottle in his teeth, buzzards overhead, “crawling on his belly like a reptile” while “pulling himself upward by grasping at plants.” Caballo Blanco?s Last Run: The Micah True Story 2012-05-21T14:57:31Z Motorcyclist killed in crash sparked by buzzard Twelve Pr. Roger Clemens?s attorneys argue Andy Pettitte?s testimony should be thrown out 2012-05-07T17:05:46Z The bees droned, and the wheeling buzzard suddenly dropped like a plummet a hundred yards through the larkspur blue. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The dead horse was left behind, while far in the sky wheeled two black specks, buzzards waiting for the feast. Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends 2012-04-14T02:00:22.840Z If this hypothesis be tenable, then a sort of giant vulture the epiornis would have been: one in whose imposing presence the condor of the Andes would have dwindled to the dimensions of a buzzard. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Once I was shooting buzzard on the Zambesi, when I came face to face with a lion, not fifteen paces from me. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z Birds of passage include the buzzard, kite, quail, wild fowl of various kinds, golden thrush, wagtail, linnet, finch and nightingale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The carancho is a great white-breasted bird, that is something like an eagle and something like a buzzard; it is everywhere abundant. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z The buzzard is everywhere the most frequent and striking figure in Guatemala and Southern Mexico, both in city and country. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z "The old buzzard's been at my alcohol bottle again," whispered Batty. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z "Well, if you think all us drunkards are such buzzard fodder, what are you packin' this around with you for?" Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z Among the birds are the vulture, eagle, falcon, buzzard, kite, lark, nightingale, heron, stork and bustard. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Once his hand, like the wing of a buzzard, passed over me, and I muttered a complaint. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z The original Hus character is conceived by the Wintus as striving toward religious purification as strenuously as the earthly buzzard works at cleaning the earth of carrion of various descriptions. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z Even the tropical buzzard that hovers over every town and crossroad in this mid-America world has disappeared from these cities—starved to death. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z And the gentleman, in order to show that he is not scurrilous, calls infidels, "donkeys, serpents, buzzards." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z The eagle was a buzzard, and the Constitution sanctioned the greatest crime of the world. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z We saw the Turkey buzzard hovering over the woods—a bird which we had not observed since 161 we left Cincinnati, and which is not found to the west of the Alleghanys. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z This may seem strange to a new student of Indian ideas, when he remembers what a foul creature the turkey buzzard is. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z Turkey buzzards, with their black bodies and pink bills, were screaming overhead on the tops of big limbs, and anxiously looking out for prey. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z The shy buzzard of the desert now perches fearlessly where once was heavy traffic. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z Ranchers in south Florida have long been accustomed to losing calves to coyotes, buzzards, even alligators. Green Blog: Can the Cowman and the Panther Co-Exist? 2012-01-24T16:50:28Z The turkey buzzards were seen hovering in the air, and, after wet weather, were often observed sitting in the sunshine, with outspread wings, on the highest trees. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Your dead body will lie on the ground, and buzzards will eat it. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z In the overhead blue a buzzard drifted on tilting wings. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Witness reports say that Villavisencio swerved to avoid a buzzard and veered head-on into the path of an 18-wheeler near the town of Normangee, Texas, about 40 miles from College Station. Texas A&M senior offensive lineman Villavisencio killed in car accident 2011-12-23T03:46:41Z In the same time span, four died from sickness, and buzzards killed two more, Ms. Jacobs said. Green Blog: Can the Cowman and the Panther Co-Exist? 2012-01-24T16:50:28Z If the buzzards were driven away, the cunning crows supplied their place. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z The buzzard is considered as a purifier on earth, and surely in regions like Central America the service rendered by the bird in this regard is memorable. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z The overhead wheeling of buzzards would have guided them now, even had the native failed of loyalty. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z And that's because th' art an arrant buzzard; the Lord deliver me from a fellow that has neither Mony, nor Friends, and yet's afraid of being Taken. Citt and Bumpkin (1680) 2011-12-21T03:00:27.683Z On the empty sky a speck appears, wings gather, buzzards are overhead. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The whole air was soon filled with these buzzards, hovering round and round, 89 while numbers of others sat together on the high trees. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z He saw in the same instant the arrival of the birds, the army of the eagles, hawks and buzzards, birds of prey—the awakening flight that just precedes the dawn. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z The Turkey Buzzard is not a true buzzard and is wrongly so called. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z And so he was swift and ready to shoot the buzzards and the royal sparhawks that were devourers of this poor folk. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Because it feeds on carrion that not even a goat grudges it, and is too lazy and cowardly to pick a quarrel, the buzzard has no enemies. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Deep 142 gullies traverse the summits of the banks, above which the turkey buzzards were hovering. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z "We'll parade over that south range like buzzards sighting carrion," Meeker continued, leading the way homeward. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The man who brought it was quite ignorant what kind of bird it was, but the priest knew it to be the common buzzard, and made up his mind to try to tame it. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z One evening, while wandering among the pines, a buzzard dipped down from a lower branch and silently sped away till a shot in the wing brought him down. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Relying upon its good offices, the careless farmer lets his dead pig or horse or chicken lie where it dropped, knowing that buzzards will speedily settle on it and pick its bones clean. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z I saw the turkey buzzards, that hovered above the hills, contending against the high wind, while a couple of falcons frequently made a stoop at them, doubtless to defend 146 their nest. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z About six weeks or so later a buzzard which was flapping its lazy way across the mountains which divide Tennessee from North Carolina saw, far below, a strange sight. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z But what was the poor man’s disgust, to see the buzzard instantly spread out its great wings and make for the neighbouring forest, deaf to all his calls! The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Over the smoking brakes swept buzzards and marsh-harriers which, forgetting their fears in opportunity, pounced boldly on the homeless and helpless. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Our soldiers in the war with Spain say that the final touch of horror on the Cuban battlefields was when the buzzards, that were wheeling overhead, suddenly dropped where their wounded or dead comrades fell. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z And Nooee, the buzzard, the powerful, said he did not care if the flood did reach the sky, for he could find a way to break thru. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z It is haunted by both the fox and the buzzard—connoisseurs on whose taste in rocks the climber can generally rely. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z The process that had answered for one cat would answer for a second, as the buzzard very well knew. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Just as the buzzard approached a fair range, I observed that a good stag had ascended my hillock, and for some twenty yards ran in full view. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z As for burying the Indians that lay around them on the plain, they left that part of the duty to the coyotes and the buzzards. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Might not the creation of Nooee out of the shadow of the eyes of the Doctor of the Earth be a poetical allusion to the flying shadow of the buzzard on the sun-bright desert? Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z Nine blocks from the steel shadow of Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, Gib Veconi circles Prospect Heights nightly in his 13-year-old Volvo wagon looking for a parking spot, like a buzzard scouring for a meal. Council to Vote on Plan for Residents? Parking Permits 2011-11-03T02:23:55Z But quick as she was, the buzzard, who had been watching her movements from the bough of a tree, was quicker still. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z A buzzard came sailing along the pine-tops towards me; I was posted on a small plateau crowning an isolated hillock, and overlooking a sea of dark green pines. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z “I called it ‘The Night of the Living Dead,’ ” recalled Sig Rogich, the Republican consultant who depicted Mr. Clinton’s tenure with a buzzard on a craggy tree. The Caucus: Presidential Campaign Ads Are Tried and True 2011-10-31T01:12:55Z The Angler and the ordinary fisherman are as far separated in character and nature as the hummingbird and the buzzard are separated in life and lesson. The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle 2011-10-28T02:00:26.687Z Mexicans and Indians hung upon the flanks of the little column night and day, as buzzards follow a dying steer. Gentlemen Rovers 2011-10-22T02:00:27.907Z But the buzzard was not the only pet the priest had to look after. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z At Burguete, between April 17th and 21st, of raptores observed, with the exception of occasional kites, the buzzard was the commonest hawk, and already had eggs. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Not only had the honey buzzard never returned to nest on the beeches of the Hanger since 1780, but it had continued to decrease everywhere in England and was now extinct. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Here and there on the hard ground a pigeon traced its feathery footprints, startling the quarrelsome sparrows, and above in the clear sky a buzzard drew widening circles, an ink-blot on the blue. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z I could not leave this noble creation of nature to the wolves and buzzards. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z Not even a Rizpah left to brood over the scalpless forms, and to drive away the buzzard and the wild things of the forest! Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z One cannot speak approvingly of the sanitary condition of a place where turkey buzzards are depended upon to remove the garbage which accumulates in the thoroughfares. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z I have already said that we took snipe and woodcock by means of "gins" and "springes," and one morning on going to examine a snare, we discovered a large buzzard near one which was "struck." The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Such a bird came flying by just as the buzzards put the body on the ground, and he stopped and looked at it. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people 2011-08-02T02:00:20.603Z Far and wide the rocky landscape lay before me, with no other sign of life than that of the buzzards circling round the heights. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z The cold was redoubled, the fox gnashed his teeth in the pursuit of an invisible prey; the famished buzzard fell back with empty claws among the bushes, uttering a cry of distress. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z Even the turkey buzzards, acting as street scavengers, are of an antique species, looking quite gray and dilapidated, as though they were a hundred years old. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z A woodcock had been taken in one of our snares, which, while fluttering, had been seen and attacked by the buzzard. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z The black eagle sent the buzzard as a messenger to this person, and he gave him the corn. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people 2011-08-02T02:00:20.603Z He has gone with the polecat, the pine marten, the wild cat, the harriers, the buzzards, and a host of the brightest and loveliest of our birds. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z "It is a buzzard chasing something," said Marc, stopping. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z Like the solemnly sacrificed buzzard in California, like the bull in the Attic Dupolia, "he was supposed to be yet alive and incarnate in all the owls in existence".* Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z You roosted up here like a lot of buzzards and let me chop myself out of the contest! Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z When day came, the golden eagle and the buzzard perched upon the naked red skeletons, and took their toll. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people 2011-08-02T02:00:20.603Z It was the home of the buzzard, coyote and eagle. The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west 2011-07-03T02:00:11.037Z The man, taking the bag, went to the gentlemen's servants and said, "Pray, be not angry with me, you shall see I had a buzzard, for here be the feathers." Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z In the same way certain Californian tribes which worship the buzzard sacrifice him, "himself to himself," once a year, and use his skin as a covering in the ritual.* Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Overhead a buzzard wheeled, banking sharply, coming down lazily, then flapped upward and on. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z The buzzard, because he is bald, stands for the old men who have little hair. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people 2011-08-02T02:00:20.603Z I just circled above her like a buzzard, driving her down, down, all the time. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z The buzzards will attend to that part of the work. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z Great care is taken in preserving the skin of the sacrificed totem, the buzzard, as it makes part of a sacred dress. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Across the way lay the dead steers and overhead a buzzard wheeled slowly, waiting to return to the feast from which he had been frightened by Sam's approach. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Several men of unsavory reputations who had come, like buzzards scenting the carrion from afar, were advised to leave town and stay away. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z A 71-year-old man was left pouring with blood after being attacked by a buzzard in a field in Worcestershire. Man, 71, hurt in buzzard attack 2011-06-10T09:40:49Z "But how will the buzzards know?" asked Walter. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z "If I was Miss Dee I shouldn't thank you to be a calling me a buzzard." Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z "That your pet buzzard, Sam?" he asked once, squinting upward at the wheeling scavenger. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z This protects the voles from the coldest temperatures and the cover stops them from being hunted by birds of prey like buzzards and owls, he said. Vole plague reaches record level 2011-05-12T23:37:09Z Instead, it wants keepers to be allowed to control more common species, such as ravens and buzzards, in certain circumstances. Air raids 2011-05-10T16:18:10Z Anudder song what comes to my min' is: Hawk an' de buzzard went down to de law; When de hawk got back he had a broken jaw. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z Two buzzards were sitting on the edge of a bluff, gazing over the water. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z A slow shadow crossed between them as the buzzard wheeled, waiting, lazily impatient.... The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Raptor experts report that buzzards and owls - which feed on field voles - are thriving this year. Vole plague reaches record level 2011-05-12T23:37:09Z He was chased away from his home at the Phoenix Falconry near Auchterarder by wild buzzards. Fears for 'big softie' bald eagle 2011-05-01T11:50:14Z About the first of June I saw numbers of buzzards sailing around over the great Falls of the Potomac. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z So, sitting there, one of the buzzards stretched out his neck and looked up the river. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z The buzzard had ceased his wheeling, the stars came out. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z With mockery and insult, they stripped it naked, dragged it into the bushes, and left it there a prey to the buzzards and the wolves. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z Making a charge on one of the buzzards, however, he tore off a wing before the clumsy bird could get out of the way. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z The crow fights the hawk, and the king-bird and crow-blackbird fight the crow; but neither takes any notice of the buzzard. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z He stretched his neck again and looked, and turned to the other buzzard and said “I see a body.” A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z The sharpers are crouching like buzzards on the edge of every town. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z "It would bring down their enemies like buzzards on carrion," said the Basket Woman. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z The buzzards hurried over the barricades followed by the footmen, who threw themselves among the spectators, crying out, "El diablo! el diablo!—it is the devil! it is the devil!" The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z To use a homely phrase, Harper's Ferry was "between hawk and buzzard," a condition in which it remained 'till the war was ended four years afterwards. The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country 2011-03-04T03:00:59.137Z Then the two buzzards stood quietly gazing upon the body of the boy where they had laid it down upon the ground. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z A buzzard's claw tie round de baby's neck make teethin' easy. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z Eastward, above the high tilted mesa under the open sky, the buzzards were making a merry-go-round. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Several men now advanced on foot, and the horsemen followed, with the four buzzards in the rear, flapping their wings. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z The vulture and the eagle are alone seen wheeling above the green cliffs, or a solitary buzzard soaring in quest of his prey over the great sheets of cultivation. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Of course it is doubtful if the buzzards could detect his serpent-like form; yet it is a brave man who will say what a buzzard can and cannot see. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z De breeze sot him to swingin' and de buzzards fly off. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z The little boy could not imagine, though he tried, what a buzzard's dinner might be like. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Blinded with passion, he was hurrying along, not knowing nor caring whither he went, when he ran over a buzzard in the street and fell flat on his face. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z The appearance of a white buzzard prognosticates good or evil according to the position of the tail, and chief of all the numerous birds of ill omen is the “Goorameila.” The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z As the play was usually complicated with many fatalities, the buzzards were about the only ones to benefit. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z His tongue hangin' out and de buzzards fly down on he shoulder. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z He went on toward the mesa, stopped again, looked back and then up at the whirling buzzards, and went on again. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z As I was ridin' along, I seen some buzzards and I rode out there. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z Two tawny owls, a buzzard, goshawk and barn owl - which all need a special certificate to be sold legally - were found at a house in Burnley. Officers seize illegal taxidermy 2011-02-22T09:08:05Z "You think—" Then Simon hesitated and looked again with reddening eyes toward the gliding buzzards. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z Among the birds, the large flightless forms, Eupterornis, Gastornis, were prominent, and many others were present, such as the ancestral forms of our modern gulls, albatrosses, herons, buzzards, eagles, owls, quails, plovers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z As for the buzzards, they rose higher and higher into the dim, quivering air. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Old World vultures, which include buzzards and hawks, are found in Africa and Europe, and use sight to find their prey. Ugly animals need love, too 2011-02-18T14:15:00.253Z "The Colonel's? why, straight afore you;—follow your nose, you buzzard!" Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Yet there was no chance of the buzzards, at present spectators in the clouds and waiting for the final act, to become bored. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z While the black buzzards are quarrelling over the carcase, not far off there is another carcase stretched upon the sward, also of a bear. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z She went up the mesa rim toward the spot where the buzzards swung circling in the sky. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z I have been a blockhead to neglect my duty, that I might not cause pain to others;—we poor curates—we are, as may be said, ever between a hawk and a buzzard. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z I turned to see if I was pursued, but there was only an anxious and solicitous mother buzzard in the cave-mouth, her ugly neck outstretched toward me, and her broad wings bowed in anger. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z That leaves something warm and still for the buzzard's beak. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z There is the carcase of the bear, black with buzzards, and the skin still hanging from the tree. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z There was the coyote skulking out in the cactus scrub, and the buzzards wheeling low and large. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Above the trees a huge buzzard soared lazily. Swamp Island 2011-01-28T03:00:22.400Z When a buzzard showed a man his chest, it meant a visitor was imminent. Climate Threatens Species at Every Altitude 2011-01-21T16:29:18Z Such creatures cannot exist for long in the silences and the endless ridges and the unbeaten trails of this land; they either become woodsmen or have communication with the buzzards. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z The buzzards perceive them, and though dull birds, reluctant to leave their foul feast, they fly up with a fright. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z They surrounded him in a ca�on in the hills and there shot him to death leaving his body a prey for buzzards and wolves. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z The buzzards, which once picked up the garbage of the markets, had disappeared. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z So how happy were her media buzzards when they found this photo of a snoozing, nearly drooling Tran? And what's more, you're ugly! 2010-09-27T16:22:00Z Instead they are the buzzards, and they are keeping even a closer watch on him than he is on them. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z There is heard only the “whish” of wings as the buzzards return to their interrupted repast. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z The robe with which he had been clothed had been torn away by buzzards and only the denuded skeleton sat there. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z In total 46 birds of prey, including golden eagles, sea eagles, red kites and buzzards were poisoned in Scotland in 2009. Rare eagles poisoned in Scotland 2010-08-25T07:03:00Z The airport here is plagued by huge pied crows, buzzards and vultures. Tales from the road 2010-06-11T12:01:00Z Wren, mourning dove, house finch, turkey buzzard— for your entertainment, I sing the words of old fifties songs, use baby talk, croon as I walk the field beneath great blizzard- dreaming clouds. David Huddle: “Roanoke Pastorale.” 2010-05-24T04:00:00Z There is no one near—no sign of life, save the buzzards still lingering around the bones of the bear, and the quaint, grey wolf that has shared with them their repast. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z But I don’t worry about the buzzards that have started roosting in the trees in the back yard. The Talents of a Middle-Aged Brain 2010-04-30T17:21:00Z The Mets have had a run of buzzard’s luck, to be sure, but to paraphrase Casey Stengel, they’re going to be unlucky their whole lives if they don’t change. Q.& A.: Mets Bloggers Assess the Coming Season, Part 1 2010-03-29T14:14:00Z They are, however, hunted by the same predators, raptors like hawks and buzzards. Why Do Lizards Have Ears? To Eavesdrop, Perhaps 2010-03-04T20:55:00Z Bluebird, jay, chipping sparrow, turkey buzzard, clouds, and field—I dream this life, walk this world. David Huddle: “Roanoke Pastorale.” 2010-05-24T04:00:00Z Of the former there are two kinds, the generous, as the peregrine falcon, lanner, goshawk, &c.; and the ignoble, as the buzzard, kite, &c. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Someone should see that calf before the buzzards had obliterated all trace of the owner. The Trail of Conflict The two buzzards overhead were floating somewhat lower, and they could see all over the tangled maze of scrubby growth and buffalo-paths. The Red Mustang Once he found the traces of an old kill, where a cougar had dined and from which the buzzards had but newly departed. The Voice of the Pack There are a lot of buzzards sitting around here to-night, calculating I'm loaded up to the brim and ready for a plucking. Making Money Above the blue sky arched, with here and there a white cloud against which some buzzards were circling in majestic calmness. The Cottage of Delight A Novel As he gazed he saw turkey buzzards, of which there are thousands in that land, wheeling their spiral flight above the afflicted territory. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories One of the captured Mexican horses gave out and was left for the buzzards. The Red Mustang They were the buzzards, the followers of the dead. The Voice of the Pack Is there anything dying or dead here, that these buzzards appear from the sky and alight? The Moonlit Way Two great buzzards were flying low against the hot, cloudless vault of blue. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play Only a few sinister buzzards wheeled their flight, with straight, unflapping wings, high above Russell, almost out of sight, as if they were the embodied ghosts of Russell's unbaptized inhabitants. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories It's well for her that she put me in a passion, or she should have carried a festered carcase that the buzzards might have fed upon before she died. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency The buzzards were hovering in the sky, evidently waiting for him to pass. The Voice of the Pack One day, when riding back to the ranch, I saw half a dozen turkey buzzards soaring over the meadow—perhaps there was a dead jack-rabbit in the field. A-Birding on a Bronco "He'll come fast enough," returned the driver; "you don't catch buzzards staying in for weather!" Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play The genus Accipitres, including eagles, falcons, buzzards, &c., is very numerous, and of these three or four new varieties were obtained. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. Roger, who shared Good's dislike for the reporter, having even in private characterised him as a "buzzard," quickly withdrew, and Good was left to complete the details of the evening's work. Thirty The buzzards were almost done, and one white bone from the shoulder gave unmistakable evidence of the passage of a bullet. The Voice of the Pack Turtle doves flew swiftly past, and high over head hawks and buzzards circled and let themselves be borne by the wind. A-Birding on a Bronco Cows grazed in the river, and high above a turkey buzzard soared, gazing down to find death on the earth. The Shadow If the two "z's" in buzzard Are because it buzzes, then I think that in "mosquito" There should be eight or ten. Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895 I've been called worse names than buzzard by people who were trying to walk off with my money. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction And Cranston, knowing this fact, hated him as he hated the buzzard that would claim him in the end and tried to hide his apprehension. The Voice of the Pack Among the indigenous birds are some birds of prey, as the African vulture, the falcon, the buzzard, the sparrow-hawk and the kite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Sheltered in the bosom of these grim precipices, only the eagle, the hawk, the turkey buzzard, or the mountain sheep could venture to intrude upon them. The Greater Republic A History of the United States The clouds that had obscured the sky all day formed darker masses tinted with pink to the east, and the black dot of a turkey buzzard wheeled soaring in the gloom. Thy Rocks and Rills The long-legged buzzard is found throughout Egypt, as are owls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The ten toes of my feet are hard as buzzards' claws from the stones of roads, from clambering cold rockfaces of hills. A Pushcart at the Curb Lights flickered in meaningless succession on subsidiary instrument boards and du Fresne darted about like a bespectacled buzzard, studying first this set of symbols, then that one. The Ambassador And temper, say, he's gettin' as red in the face as a turkey buzzard, struttin' around with a chip on its wing, ready for a fight. The Boy Scouts in the Rockies or the Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine Riding the wind, blacker than the clouds, the inquisitive turkey buzzard glided over the rim of the stands with air whistling through the spatulate feathers of rigid wings. Thy Rocks and Rills No one ever did know how many o' that bunch ended up by feedin' the turkey buzzards. The Boy With the U.S. Miners In Northamptonshire we find a proverb, “I’m between a hawk and a buzzard,” which means, “I don’t know what to do, or how to act.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare His advice to Professor Bell was to forget about his kites and other artificial devices, and to study the turkey buzzard, which knows more about flying than all the colleges on earth. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Presently, over the high butte to the north, he saw a buzzard on wide motionless wings, "sitting" in the blue. Dusty Star The buzzard swooped a foot above Moe's horns and soared swiftly over the opposite side of the ring. Thy Rocks and Rills Aside from decent prospectors and miners, there was a pack o' gamblers, saloon-keepers, 'bad men,' fake speculators, an' all the rest o' the human buzzards that follow on the heels of a rush. The Boy With the U.S. Miners And yet all the vast powers of the government are given to the aid and support of this class from which come the sharks, buzzards, and wolves. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 The thing that beats you all, said Mr. Holland, is the humble turkey buzzard. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Apart from the camp, nothing living could be seen, except a pair of buzzards circling high up in the eastern blue. Dusty Star "I think that when the buzzards come there is apt to be carrion." The Portal of Dreams The hawk sails high in the sleepy air, The buzzard on wings as strong and fair Circles and stoops 'neath the lazy cloud, And crows in the wood are cawing aloud. Blooms of the Berry Among other members of this order are the eagle, osprey, vulture, buzzard, kite and hawk, with about a dozen species in all. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" The quiet of the hills was in Eugene's mind, the glisten and babble of mountain streams, the soar and poise of hawks and buzzards and eagles sailing the crystal blue. The "Genius" They rode down into gorges, deep crevices, in which reigned a sepulchral penumbra and where buzzards hopped close by the dead body of some abandoned animal. Sónnica Jeemineezer! don't she hold that cantankerous little buzzard's head down pretty. Stories of the Foot-hills We used in early boyhood, deceived by some uncertainty in size, not to distinguish between a kite and a buzzard, which was very stupid, and unlike us—more like Poietes in Salmonia. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Long before they had arrived, however, Peleg had shuddered when he discovered flocks of circling buzzards that were hovering over the battle ground. Scouting with Daniel Boone A soaring buzzard poised in speculative flight held his attention fixedly. The "Genius" The poor buzzards sat alone in their houses by an open case; they drank; their brain was fired; they stumbled towards the nearest houses on chance; and the dart went through their liver. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) In the cold upper blue the buzzards circled, breasted the wind, or turned and scudded down it. John March, Southerner The flight of the buzzard, as may be seen in Selby, is slow—and except during the season of incubation, when it often soars to a considerable height, it seldom remains long on the wing. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) But as he had been frightfully cut up the night before he disappeared, it was generally believed he had crawled into a hole in the rocks somewhere, and died, and been eaten by buzzards. Cudjo's Cave And all he had to his name was the three dollars lying so peacefully before him, with the speculative Franke hovering over them like a fat buzzard over a dead coyote. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Paul had called it more precious than life, and now time flew screaming by in great deadly sweeps, like a black-winged buzzard. Martyr Den one day a buzzard flew over de house top an' his wings spread a shadow out on de roof. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 And foxes and martens and buzzards and polecats and ermines are to be preserved for five years. The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories "Make a single move—speak a single word—and you are food for the buzzards!" came a whisper from the bush that well might chill his blood. Cudjo's Cave Had this buzzard circled out into the trail while he himself was asleep? Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance We are all good scavengers now, and there is no need of buzzards in the streets. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital "I reckon you looked something like a picked buzzard when you got through," she said with a broad Southern accent. Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School But outside, in the depths of the wilds above the highest point in the Venn, a lonely buzzard was moving round and round in a circle, uttering the piercing triumphant cry of a wild bird. The Son of His Mother The bones of dead horses and other animals were bleaching in the streets, and buzzards, as tame as sparrows, hopped aside to let us pass. The Boys of '98 Far above two great buzzards, circling round and round, faded into the morning haze. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance For men were running about the room, and Joseph Calvin was hovering over the South Harvey delegation like a buzzard. In the Heart of a Fool Even the ancient raven curse, the curse of the Habicht which had given his House its very name, was now fulfilled by unclean buzzards. The Missourian A buzzard rose up slowly, flopping awkwardly to clear the canyon wall, and her heart leapt once and stood still. Wunpost Wolves ran howling away as the Frenchmen drew near, and voracious buzzards wheeled overhead. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Like a hateful buzzard it was always somewhere in her sky. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards He was such a weird old buzzard that it never occurred to me he might be dangerous. Status Quo They were the buzzards, the only form of life held sacred. The Missourian Say, give the old buzzard what he wants. Carmen Ariza Watch a hawk or a buzzard soaring and you will see they move their wings but little. Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades The most beautiful flyer we ever see against our33 skies is the unsavory buzzard. Under the Maples The order Accipitres includes all the birds of prey—that is to say, the eagles, falcons, hawks, buzzards, vultures, and owls. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 At such times other buzzards only a short distance away found it necessary to flap frequently in order to maintain themselves. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Before sundown that devil’s carcass will be buzzard meat!” Carmen Ariza He was the angel whom a country clergyman shot in mistake for a buzzard, in that graceful satire, The Wonderful Visit. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle The buzzard and condor do the same thing. Under the Maples But the water-snake sprang up and turned into the lowest of all birds, a speckled buzzard, and perched on the steep edge of a cliff. The Chinese Fairy Book The buzzards were the most numerous, and were the most persistent soarers. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Above the travelers all the day swung the ubiquitous buzzards, with their watchful, speculative eyes ever on the slowly moving cavalcade. Carmen Ariza You know as well as I do what they really are––merely looters skulking through the smoke of a world in flames––buzzards on the carcass of a civilisation dead. The Crimson Tide A Novel Our hawks and buzzards are examples of the second class. Under the Maples The buzzard slipped and fell down the side of the cliff. The Chinese Fairy Book When the weather was cold and damp and the wind strong the buzzards would be seen soaring back and forth along the hills or at the edge of a clump of trees. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons She talks with the buzzards that roost on the old wall, and they are full of evil spirits!” Carmen Ariza “Let him go,” pleaded Calhoun; “but for him I would now have been food for the buzzards.” Raiding with Morgan The hawks and the buzzards are, comparatively speaking, birds of leisure. Under the Maples When Yang Oerlang saw that the ape had turned himself into so contemptible a creature as a buzzard, he would no longer play the game of changing form with him. The Chinese Fairy Book These are the dark-plumed, funereal-looking buzzard, or vulture, a bird which is protected by law, and depended on to act in the capacity we have described. Aztec Land Those brainless buzzards, if they only knew it and had sense enough to unite, could strip every feather off that swaggering vulture and send him packing. Carmen Ariza “Keep watch to see if any Johnny attempts to cross the river,” answered the sergeant; “but I doubt if we see anything larger than buzzards, and we can’t stop them.” Raiding with Morgan Possibly also such birds as crows, black birds, buzzards, etc., and fish-feeding fowl. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome The Mexicans called him El Aoura, the buzzard, because no man could tell when he would swoop over even the farthest range of La Partida to catch them napping. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine With every sunrise the magpies and buzzards came in great flocks, to sit upon the wall after they had sated themselves in the corral, and watch him. When the West Was Young And the black buzzards sat on the wall and watched them. Carmen Ariza Turkey buzzards, birds which are always on the wing, and that none of us ever yet saw alighted, wheel through the air like eagles, gazing down upon us with seeming defiance. Three Years in the Federal Cavalry "Pity they didn't get that buzzard and hang him, isn't it, sir?" he commented indignantly. Mixed Faces It’s a new one on me, and there was nothing I could blame it on but disgust of the buzzards.” The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine No bird––not even a buzzard––flew overhead. When the West Was Young If we put it in one of the bóvedas in the cemetery the buzzards will eat it and scatter the plague all over the town. Carmen Ariza Did you ever see a flock of buzzards circling, Flash, waiting for some wounded thing beneath them to die? Once to Every Man But don’t go to shooting Mexicans off of rocks as if they were turkey buzzards––that’s what gets people into the pen. Hidden Water This message could hardly have come from Beth's "bandy-legged buzzard." The Vagrant Duke In due season their great bodies reel and fall, and the wolves and buzzards are fed. Two Arrows A Story of Red and White Coquetting for a husband still, the old buzzard!” Carmen Ariza Then wind up your bank account; before I finish with you I’ll put you in stripes and feed buzzards off your table.” Whispering Smith Against the cool face of the cliff the buzzards moped and stretched their dirty wings in squalid discomfort; the trim little sparrow-hawks gave over their hunting; and all the world lay tense and still. Hidden Water A man of his type hardly lapses into hysteria at the mere thought of a "bandy-legged buzzard." The Vagrant Duke Two or three buzzards started up from the roadside, with their horrid flapping and whiff of quills, and circled low overhead. Dr. Sevier They eluded the thrusts, the dives and plunges of the American ships as easily as a swallow eludes the dive of a buzzard. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 As a buzzard scents carrion, other cowboys anticipated sport, and a group soon gathered. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Eagles of every kind are esteemed by the Indians to be unclean food; as also ravens, crows, bats, buzzards and every species of owl. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State "It's a heap better than being behind bars for a lifetime or feeding buzzards while dangling from the limb of a tree." The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska He tried in vain to make out its meaning, turning it about, peering at it from all angles, like an evil old buzzard. Louisiana Lou A Western Story After stuffing the wound with buzzard's down and giving Wolf Paw herb tea to drink, White Bear sent him on his way. Shaman “You want to feed th’ buzzards?” the girl asked with an insulting peal of laughter. Tharon of Lost Valley Before his return from Fort Pitt, some of his neighbors directed to the spot by the buzzards hovering over it, found her half eaten and mutilated body. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Up the slough were many shanty-boats, 219 and gaunt dogs and floppy buzzards fed along the bar and down the wharf. The River Prophet So he was one, but he was an arrow in the quiver of a very stupid bowman, who shot next day at a buzzard and missed it. Oswald Bastable and Others I took a look at those buzzards there in Washington. Red Men and White A buzzard hung in the early evening sky, circling high and then suddenly dropping in a swoop. Rimrock Trail Eagles or buzzards; he did not know enough of the country to be able to tell which. Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor They were both silent for some moments, watching the buzzards as they swooped low over some dark object on the floor of the canyon. With Hoops of Steel In buzzard, and reynard, the name of the fox, it is simply augmentative. A Handbook of the English Language In a case of emergency I can relish buzzard, but if there is any one kind of food upon earth that I think never was designed to be eaten, it is veal. The Land of Thor Walking cat-footed, he made no sound but suddenly three buzzards rose on heavy wings and he went swiftly to where they had been squatting. Rimrock Trail It abounds in deer, wolves, bears, squirrels, racoons, and foxes; in wild turkeys and quails; geese and ducks, partially; and hawks, buzzards, and pigeons in tolerable abundance; and the rivers contain several species of fish. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe The face had been gnawed by coyotes and picked by buzzards until not a recognizable feature was left. With Hoops of Steel There must be wild duck on the firth, and buzzards in the rocks. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy Everybody ran after him as after a buzzard;18 they envied the house before the threshold of which the Cup-Bearer's son halted his two-wheeled chaise, which passed by the French name of cabriolet. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 A white horse, emaciated, little more than buzzard meat when alive, lay with its legs stiff in the air, neck flattened and head limp. Rimrock Trail The latter, in appearance, are not much unlike turkeys, and thence have obtained the name of turkey buzzards; but, from their carnivorous habits, they have a most offensive smell. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe “Yes, and not so very long ago, either,” Tom assented, “or the buzzards wouldn’t have left this much flesh on it, and it would be dried up more.” With Hoops of Steel |
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