buzzard

English

Common buzzard, Buteo buteo, an Old World buzzard

American black vulture, Coragyps atratus

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman buisart, from Old French buison, buson (French buse), possibly from Latin buteōn (“buteo”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbʌzəɻd/

Noun

buzzard (plural buzzards)

1. Any of several Old-World birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail.
2. In North America, a general term for scavenging birds such as the American black vulture, also called American black buzzard (Coragyps atratus), and the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
3. (colloquial, often preceded by "old") a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man.
4. (archaic) A blockhead; a dunce.
   • Goldsmith

     It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard.

Derived terms

• augur buzzard, Buteo augur
• common buzzard, Buteo buteo
• forest buzzard, Buteo trizonatus
• grasshopper buzzard, Butastur rufipennis
• grey-faced buzzard, Butastur indicus
• jackal buzzard, Buteo rufofuscus
• lizard buzzard, Kaupifalco monogrammicus
• long-legged buzzard, Buteo rufinus
• Madagascar buzzard, Buteo brachypterus
• mountain buzzard, Buteo oreophilus
• red-necked buzzard, Buteo auguralis
• rufous-winged buzzard, Butastur liventer
• upland buzzard, Buteo hemilasius
• white-eyed buzzard, Butastur teesa

Synonyms

• broadwing
• turkey vulture
• vulture

Translations

Genus Buteo

• Albanian: huta (sq)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: zapelatz (eu)
• Belarusian: каня (kanja) f
• Breton: baou (br)
• Bulgarian: обикновен мишелов (obiknoven mišelov) m
• Catalan: aligot (ca) m, zopilot (ca) m
• Choctaw: sheki
• Czech: káně (cs) n
• Danish: musvåge (da)
• Dutch: buizerd (nl) m
• Esperanto: buteo (eo)
• Estonian: hiireviu (et)
• Faroese: músvákur (fo) m
• Finnish: haukka (fi)
• French: buse (fr) f
• Friulian: cagne, poiane
• Galician: miñato (gl) m, bexato (gl) m
• German: Bussard (de) m
• Greek: γερακίνα (el) (gerakína) f
• Hungarian: ölyv (hu)
• Icelandic: músvákur (is) m
• Irish: clamhán (ga)
• Isthmus Zapotec: nguʼxhiʼ
• Italian: poiana (it) f
• Khmer: ត្មាត (km) (tmaat)
• Korean: 말똥가리 (ko) (malttonggari)
• Ladin: gabinel
• Latvian: klijāns (lv)

• Lithuanian: suopis (lt)
• Lower Sorbian: pašturlica f
• Macedonian: jастреб глувчар (jastreb gluvčar) m
• Maltese: kuċċarda prima (mt) f
• Norwegian: musvåk (no)
• Occitan: tartana (oc) f
• Polish: myszołów (pl) m
• Portuguese: águia de asa redonda f, milhafre m
• Romani: worolo m, worla f
• Romanian: șoricar (ro) m
• Romansch: girun da mieurs (rm)
• Russian: канюк (ru) (kanjúk) m, саpыч (ru) (sarýč) m
• Sami: sáhpánboaimmáš, sáhpánfálli
• Sardinian: stori furapuddas, tappàiu, pilloni farrancau
• Scottish Gaelic: clamhan (gd) m, àrmhaigh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ми̏ша̄р (sh) m, шка́њац (sh) m

  Roman: mȉšār (sh) m, škánjac (sh) m

• Slovak: myšiak lesný (sk)
• Slovene: kanja (sl)
• Spanish: ratonero común (es) m , busardo (es) m, gavilán (es) m
• Swedish: ormvråk (sv)
• Turkish: şahin (tr)
• Ukrainian: канюк (uk) (kanjúk) m
• Upper Sorbian: pašturlica, paskulica
• Volapük: (male or female) busar (vo), (male) hibusar (vo), (female) jibusar (vo), (offspring, young) busarül (vo)
• Welsh: bwncath (cy)
• West Frisian: mûzefalk (fy)

American black vulture — see black vulture

turkey vulture — see turkey vulture