Many of our non-birding friends call vultures "buzzards" - I suggest we stop
cringing when we hear this and embrace it...
Of course now we have Buzzards - new world vultures and Buzzards - Old World
Buteos, maybe we should call them all Cackling Raptors...

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]]OnBehalf
Of JAMES FELLEY
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:44 AM
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Subject: [MDOSPREY] What is a raptor? (more clubbing)


New World vultures are more closely related to storks than
they are to Old World Vultures and other Falconiformes.
So New World vultures aren't really 'vultures'.  What to do?
   Let me resurrect a suggestion I saw a couple of years
ago on Birdchat (attribution?  help me here!).

  -- Let's call the New World vultures 'condors'.

As in 'Turkey Condor', 'Black Condor', 'King Condor', etc.

Yes/no?

                             Jim

Jim Felley
Smithsonian Institution