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The English word 'buzzard' is an interesting word. In England, 'buzzard' (and 'vulture') refer to different birds than in the Americas. American buzzards/vultures are a group found only in the New World. If only there was a uniquely American way of referring to this uniquely American bird...
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In England 'buzzard' refers to birds in the genus Buteo. 'Hawk' refers to things like goshawks and sparrowhawks, genus Accipiter and relatives. Old World vultures don't make it up into England except as rare migrants, but get that name. (Vultures are either in subfamily Gypaetinae or Aegypiinae).
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Instead the Americas have a whole different group of carrion-feeding birds that fill the ecological role of OW vultures. These birds are so distantly related that they get their own family, Cathartidae, and sometimes even their own order. They separated from these other birds >35 million yrs ago.
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English colonists in America tended to settle on familiar English words for both familiar and unfamiliar animals. 'Hawk' grew to refer to both Buteo buzzards and Accipiter hawks. Sometimes the same species is found in both countries but called buzzard in one and hawk in the other (eg. Buteo lagopus)
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