Informal poll (birds)

[Deborah Hoffman]

The way I heard the story -- in connection with the "buzzard" festival at Hinckley, Ohio to welcome back the turkey vultures every year -- was that settlers from England brought the term buzzard to the US and began applying it to turkey vultures. That usage either died out back home or never caught on. Have no citable source for this information, however!
   
  I'm glad there are other hale and hearty birders out there. My preschooler has taken a shine to the Audobon Society calendar and his standard conversation opener is "Do you know the Brown Pelican? How about the Palawan Hornbill?" Maybe I should sign him up for SEELANGS...
   
   
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  Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:12:12 -0400
From:    "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
Subject: Re: Informal poll

This makes sense if the US usage is "hawk" and the UK usage is 
"buzzard" 
-- why would a lexicographer invent a US term for a UK bird, or vice 
versa? Or do American birders "misname" the local birds when they cross 
the pond?


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