A buzzard is a type of bird of prey, in any of several different but related senses:
A medium-sized wide-ranging raptor with a robust body and broad wings.
A raptor of the genus Buteo. In the Old World, members of this genus are named as "buzzards", but "hawk" is more common in North America.
Any raptor which happens to have the word buzzard as part of its name. In the past, the term was often loosely used in North America as a synonym for vulture, particularly the American Black Vulture and Turkey Vulture. This usage is no longer common.
The elegance of its descent and the prey's instinctive knowledge of danger are combined in a sharp portrayal of nature’s splendor and asperity.
Scott Momaday's "Buteo Regalis" relates the beauty and mystery of nature, moving from a frail rodent's instinct of danger to a robust, sharp-eyed hawk's instinct to feed.
"Buteo Regalis" is Latin and the scientific classification of genus and species, for the Ferruginous, the largest hawk of the North American plains, growing as much as 63 centimeters in length.
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