American vulture or European hawk

Usage examples of buzzard.

Hovering over the scene was a bunch of particularly ugly buzzards, looking down upon the good guys and licking their beaky chops.

Trying not even to hope that Ironlaw might lead him to Buglet, he turned away to watch a buzzard wheeling over the other end of the camp and drew a long slow breath before he dared look again.

In his full regalia the Buzzard mounted the platform, and as he took the oath placed one hand on the flashing yellow cairngorm in the hilt of his dagger.

Also in attendance was the local Roman Catholic primate, a foreigner named Father Simony, and a wizened, breech-clouted little witch doctor of the King Buzzard cult, Don Curandero Brujo.

Den he flop down fudder, ole Brer Buzzard did, twel he lit on de top er de holler tree.

Arkansas has been called the Hot Water State and the Toothpick State, Georgia the Buzzard State, Goober State and Cracker State.

A buzzard flapped out of the flying dirt, made a last-minute course adjustment as the wind gusted, then landed on the hood of the cruiser.

The balloon began logily to lose altitude under the combined weight of buzzards and buzzard droppings.

At their approach, the buzzards hopped off the carcasses, then lumbered into flight with an ungainly flapping of wings.

I lay a long time amid the fern, with bees humming around me and pipits calling, and an occasional buzzard or peregrine hovering in the blue, thinking precisely the same thoughts that I used to have in France the day before a big action.

Buzzard still be there when we arrive, or will he have given up his search and sailed away?

If she were here, by this time the Buzzard would have set sails and his silhouette would be unmistakable.

There was only the odd flash of answering fire from the gun pits on the beach, and the Buzzard responded immediately to these, swinging his ship and bringing to bear the full power of his broadside, snuffing them out with a whirlwind of grape, flying sand and falling trees.

It offered welcome shade, but still the wanderer sat there in the sunlight and watched the curious buzzards.

The abbot leaned against the parapet to listen while he watched the buzzards circling over the mesa of Last Resort.