{"id":6105,"date":"2018-03-30T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/low-flying-turkey-buzzard\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T21:15:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T04:15:44","slug":"low-flying-turkey-buzzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/low-flying-turkey-buzzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Flying Turkey Buzzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/turkey-buzzard.jpg' title='Turkey Buzzard'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/turkey-buzzard.jpg' alt='Turkey Buzzard' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we were outside today enjoying the warm spring weather, a turkey buzzard dropped down from its normal higher soaring altitude and buzzed the back yard. I got this shot with my Canon SL1 EOS and the 300mm telephoto lens.<\/p>\n<p>We call them &#8220;buzzards,&#8221; but the nomenclature &#8220;vulture&#8221; is more official for Cathartes aura. This is an excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkey_vulture\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The turkey vulture received its common name from the resemblance of the adult&#8217;s bald red head and its dark plumage to that of the male wild turkey, while the name &#8220;vulture&#8221; is derived from the Latin word vulturus, meaning &#8220;tearer&#8221;, and is a reference to its feeding habits. The word buzzard is used by North Americans to refer to this bird.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bird didn&#8217;t stay long and swooped away on its quest for desert cadavers. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were outside today enjoying the warm spring weather, a turkey buzzard dropped down from its normal higher soaring altitude and buzzed the back yard.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}