Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various broad-winged, soaring hawks of the genus Buteo.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of ignoble hawks, of the family Falconidæ, sometimes forming a subfamily Buteoninæ; the buzzards or buzzard-hawks (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) a genus of broad-winged soaring hawks.
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- noun ornithology Any of the broad-winged soaring
raptors of the genus Buteo.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun broad-winged soaring hawks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That name comes from the Latin "buteo," still retained by the ornithologists; but, in its original form, valueless, to you.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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The genus Buteo is from the Latin buteo (broad rounded wings).
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Raptors amongst the stabilised sands include 15 breeding pairs (about a tenth of the world's population) of the Spanish imperial eagle Aquila heliaca adalberti (VU), black vulture Aegypius monachus, short-toed eagle Circaetus gallicus, booted eagle Hieraaetus pennatus, buzzard Buteo buteo, black kite Milvus migrans, black-shouldered kite Elanus caeruleus, red kite M. milvus, and hobby Falco subbuteo.
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A buzzard—not an American vulture, but the European hawk buteo buteo, which looks like a small golden eagle—killed and devoured a pigeon in our front garden this morning.
The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour: Elizabeth E. Wein tanita davis 2008
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A buzzard—not an American vulture, but the European hawk buteo buteo, which looks like a small golden eagle—killed and devoured a pigeon in our front garden this morning.
Archive 2008-11-01 a. fortis 2008
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Scientists there have recorded 26 species of raptors, the two most numerous species being the steppe buzzard (Buteo buteo vulpinus) and the steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis).
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On the other hand, I saw a buteo hawk today a red-tail, I'd guess.
Archive 2007-05-01 Bardiac 2007
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The same may be said of the buzzard (buteo vulgaris).
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Buzzard, Buteo buteo, I read in the AA guide to British Birds, a hardback with a beautiful picture of a tawny owl on the cover, which you can still find in many homes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Red-tailed Hawk - the Bitterroot's most common buteo
WN.com - Articles related to States on Bangladesh border at bird flu risk: Pawar 2010
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