Buzzard vs Falcon - What's the difference?
buzzard | falcon |
Any of several Old World birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail.
In North America, a general term for scavenging birds such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus''), and the turkey vulture (''Cathartes aura ).
A curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
(archaic) A blockhead; a dunce.
* Goldsmith
Any bird of the genus Falco , all of which are birds of prey.
A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet.
To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
* 2003 , Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams , page 175:
As nouns the difference between buzzard and falcon
is that buzzard is any of several Old World birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail while falcon is any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.As a verb falcon is
to hunt with a falcon or falcons.buzzard
English
(wikipedia buzzard)Noun
(en noun)- 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 * eastern buzzard, Buteo japonicus * 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 teesaSynonyms
* buteo * broadwing * turkey vulture * vulture (-)falcon
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle.