Ernest Hemingway

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

American Novelist

Cy Young

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

American Athlete

Erma Bombeck

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

American Journalist

A buzzard is not any bird of prey, but specific species, like the European buzzard.

Bird Species

Identify buzzards by their broad wings and rounded tail while flying.

Identification

Buzzards are known for circling in the sky, searching for prey.

Behavior

When calling someone a buzzard, it implies they are greedy or exploitative.

Figurative Use

The term buzzard, for a person, always has a negative meaning.

Negative Connotation

In US culture, a buzzard is often associated with wild Western scavengers.

Cultural Reference

 and the computers all died. You can imagine what it must have been like for them inside because suddenly the lights all went out and then they came back on when the batteries picked up the load. And, every single warning light and caution light in the spacecraft was on and flashing, and all the necessary bells, whistles, and buzzards and things that are in there,

Life of an astronaut -...

 when I was a small boy in high school, and there was this boy who struck, injuring the wing and the leg of a bird we called the augur buzzard. I was standing there, just a mere 14-year-old, and I imagined a human being in a similar situation, because this bird could not help itself.

For the love of birds PIPE...

 months to get this one so this is my buzzards just so simple it took two weeks to clean the actual animal downs and from there it took just a week put the skeleton together very quick very simple and it's one of the nicest projects I've ever worked on

Bone Collector PIPE Ben...

 elephant I say it's not an exact science is a bit of guesswork you kind of have to look at everything so the indentation on the head as I say the length of the turf buzzards are shown you know there is a big difference between the ages