Birds

@farmerman,

It's legal tender in participating outlets in Lewes, (or was I don't know if it's still going.) It was an attempt to get people to shop locally.

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Sri Lankan frogmouths in the Tattekad Bird Sanctuary, India, by H Byju

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ocellated turkey ( I thought it was a joke)

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@edgarblythe,

Ok Edgar, what's happening with that bird?

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@glitterbag,

It is real, just from some other part of the world.

ocellated turkey
NOUN
1.
a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.

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Hawk Eagle

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Yesterday when I was driving through the New Forest I drove past one of these guys sat quietly at the side of the road. He wasn't at all bothered by the car.

https://www.bto.org/sites/default/files/u40/buzza%20012%20e%20(on%20ground)%20%20(Edmund%20Fellowes)%20(A).jpg

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@izzythepush,

Our Buteo hawks have developed a similar hunting adaptation. They will sit along busy roads or sit high in a tree jut over the roads and watch for rodents and rabbits that get " greased". While the rabbits are still kicking the hawks will swoop down and drive away with their "kill"

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@farmerman,

That's a buzzard, sorry for not saying. That particular road has a 40mph speed limit. Animals: donkeys, horses and cows, roam wild.

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@izzythepush,

you use "buzzard" differently than North Americans. A vulture or condor (Cathartidae) is what we call "BUZZARDS"

I know you call the Buteos and some Accipitors "Buzzards"

2 countries separated ted by a common language

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@farmerman,

This is the wiki page, they've been called buzzards for a long time, I don't think your buzzards are the same genus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_buzzard

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@izzythepush,

I thought I just said that. Perhaps I was not clear. I gave the different genera.
An Accipitor is sub family name for "long tailed hawks and falcon, and OSpreys"
Buteos are the large " Feather Legginged" hawks and Eagles . These include the Broadwings or the Red Tailed HAwks (US names).
We would call the one in your photo a broadwinged hawk.

We call "Carrion Feeders" Vultures or BUZZARDS.

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