🪶 A Common Buzzard sits in the trees and waits to drop down on passing prey. I noticed a lot more of these birds in the forest during the recent cold snap in #Ireland. #Buzzard #forest #winter - ThreadSky

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atlanticbirding.bsky.social • 44 days ago

🪶 A Common Buzzard sits in the trees and waits to drop down on passing prey. I noticed a lot more of these birds in the forest during the recent cold snap in #Ireland.
#Buzzard #forest #winter

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peregrinusetrimor.bsky.social•44 days ago

I was so confused at this post. I see a hawk. I had no idea buzzard meant something different in Europe. Learn something new every day. In the States if a person says buzzard we think of a vulture or other carrion eater.

atlanticbirding.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yeah I believe birds of the genus Buteo are referred to as Buzzards in Eurasia and Africa and Hawks in the Americas. Medium sized, stocky raptors; I’ll try to remember to give them both names in future for a worldwide audience!

peregrinusetrimor.bsky.social•44 days ago

Nothing wrong with what you said. It's one of those things I had no idea was different. We are strange on this side of the pond.

atlanticbirding.bsky.social•44 days ago

Another one I learned recently; birds you refer to as Loons in the US and Canada we simply call Divers.

peregrinusetrimor.bsky.social•44 days ago

Interesting. I have heard the term divers before. Never associated it with loons. I don't see them much. I think they just migrate through here and don't stay.

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