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Posted by johnmcafee_99 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 17, 10 at 16:50
| What are the differences between flying eagles and black buzzards? When buzzards are flying they have a two color(black and gray) under there wings. And eagles are a solid color top and bottom. the turkey buzzard and the white headed mature bald eagle are no problem. Its just the juveniles that I get mixed up Help!!! |
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| Wing shape? Vultures and buzzards have proportionately longer wings than eagles at any age. |
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| Thanks for the info. But what do you think about the underneath color as they fly over my head? What should I be seeing thanks Mc! |
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| I don't know. I learned to ID them by their flying style and body/wing proportions, so I've never paid much attention to the wings. Some of the local vultures - the turkey vultures - have a very prominent "cross" effect when you see them from underneath, soaring. Their flight feathers are light underneath, so the dark body and wingbone area make the cross. Eagles are evenly dark underneath (goldens and young bald eagles are hard to tell apart), and black vultures have pale wingtips with the rest of the underside evenly dark. |
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Had a close encounter with a buzzard at the weekend. My poor cochin chicken 'Pepper' had an even closer one! I watched in horror as the buzzard plunged onto my poor hen. Within seconds the buzzard had dismembered the head. My futile sprint across the garden just led to this enormous bird( when close up) taking off with Pepper slung below.
I am guessing that this is just normal behaviour and Pepper was unlucky. Although I have been keeping hens in the garden for 20 years and this has never happened before. Is it because this breed of chicken is small enough to become buzzard friendly? |
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| What you call "buzzards" the US would call a "hawk". And your Buteo buteo is a cousin of our Red-tailed hawk, which is a known predator of chickens, bunnies and other smallish creatures. The poor chicken was unlucky, and got caught where there was no cover. (our "buzzards" are really vultures) |
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| A little off topic but I recently went to the local natural wildlife museum where they had a Golden Eagle, which was quite impressive. What a magnificent bird! |
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| In NY we have turkey vultures. When flying they are gray underneath their wings and body. Their wings feathers spread when flying and look like fingers where an eagles stay closed.When an eagle flies it has the same wing beat pattern that a common crow has. Generally you'll see eagles near rivers and lakes.Mature eagles are easy to spot with their white heads and tails. They can be seen from a long way off.Once you see these differences it gets easier to tell |
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