Buzzard

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.

Buteo species

• Common Buzzard, (Buteo buteo)
• Red-tailed Hawk, (Buteo jamaicensis)
• Long-legged Buzzard, (Buteo rufinus)
• Rough-legged Buzzard, (Buteo lagopus)
• Ferruginous Hawk, (Buteo regalis)
• Red-shouldered Hawk, (Buteo lineatus)
• Broad-winged Hawk, (Buteo platypterus )
• Swainson's Hawk, (Buteo swainsoni)
• Roadside Hawk, (Buteo magnirostris)
• Ridgway's Hawk, (Buteo ridgwayi)
• White-rumped Hawk, (Buteo leucorrhous)
• Short-tailed Hawk, (Buteo brachyurus)
• White-throated Hawk, (Buteo albigula)
• White-tailed Hawk, (Buteo albicaudatus)
• Galapagos Hawk, (Buteo galapagoensis)
• Red-backed Hawk, (Buteo polyosoma)
• Puna Hawk, (Buteo poecilochrous)
• Zone-tailed Hawk, (Buteo albonotatus )
• Hawaiian Hawk, (Buteo solitarius)
• Rufous-tailed Hawk, (Buteo ventralis)
• Mountain Buzzard, (Buteo oreophilus)
• Madagascar Buzzard, (Buteo brachypterus)
• Upland Buzzard, (Buteo hemilasius)
• Red-necked Buzzard, (Buteo auguralis)
• Augur Buzzard, (Buteo augur)
• Archer's Buzzard, (Buteo archeri)
• Jackal Buzzard, (Buteo rufofuscus)

Other species known as "buzzard":

• Long-tailed Honey-buzzard, (Hernicopernis longicauda)
• Black Honey-buzzard, (Hernicopernis infuscatus)

• The honey-buzzards, genus Pernis, superficially resemble Buteo buzzards, hence the name, but are specialist feeders on wasp nests and larvae.

• • European or Eurasian Honey Buzzard, (Pernis apivorus)
  • Oriental Honey Buzzard, (Pernis ptilorhynchus)
  • Barred Honey-buzzard, (Pernis celebensis)
• Black-breasted Buzzard, (Hamirostra melanosternon)
• Black-chested Buzzard-eagle, (Geranoaetus melanoleucus)
• Lizard Buzzard, (Kaupifalco monogrammicus)
• Grasshopper Buzzard, (Butastur rufipennis)
• White-eyed Buzzard, (Butastur teesa)
• Rufous-winged Buzzard, (Butastur liventer)
• Grey-faced Buzzard, (Butastur indicus)