#turkey buzzard

[inniave]

Turkey vulture in flight on a clear day in May 2025. Shot on digicam.

[whotookaudreysaurus]

Red dead hyper fix has me ina chokehold belp

[arthistoryanimalia]

It's #BuzzardDay!

Image: A. Lindsay, "A Buzzard Roost," Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1887.

Begun in 1957, every year the Cleveland Metroparks Official Buzzard Spotter welcomes these migratory birds back to their roost in Hinckley, OH:

Buzzard Day 2023: Buzzards welcomed back to Hinckley in decades-old tradition with legend dating back to 1818

Visitors gather at the Buzzard Roost every March 15 for the annual event.

BTW, in the U.S. "buzzard" is a colloquial term for the Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura), not closely related to birds commonly called "buzzards" outside of the Americas. But feel free to celebrate any and all of them today!

[animalids]

Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)

Photo by Marlin Harms

[inaturalist-propaganda]

[ID: A close up photograph of a turkey vulture, shown from the shoulders up, with pitch black feathers on its back, wings, and neck, and dark pink skin on its face, with round black eyes and a bright white beak. End ID.]

Link to observation by Martinoli on iNaturalist

[ahb-writes]

[roller-rink-haruno]

The photos don’t do this justice, but this turkey vulture flew right over top of me on the walk in from the parking lot! He was awfully close!

[cincylibrary]

Turkey buzzard. From John James Audubon’s Birds of America, 1832.