Skip Lacaze<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@CStamp" class="u-url mention">@<span>CStamp</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@noondlyt" class="u-url mention">@<span>noondlyt</span></a></span> I just looked at Wikipedia’s list of birds called <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/buzzards" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>buzzards</span></a>—it included almost all of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Buteos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Buteos</span></a> whose names I recognize, including <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RedTailedHawks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RedTailedHawks</span></a>, something I never heard growing up in California. OTOH, my mother and many others called the local <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TurkeyVultures" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TurkeyVultures</span></a> (Cathartes aura) buzzards or <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TurkeyBuzzards" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TurkeyBuzzards</span></a>.</p>