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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9463707, member: 2844"]In Europe this bird would be called a vulture, so I think your charming carving was made in North America.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our buzzard is a bird that sort of looks like a small eagle.</p><p>The first Europeans in North America didn't know much about birds, and they called the buzzards they saw 'hawks', which they aren't, but they called vultures 'buzzards'. They also made mistakes naming plants btw. They had other priorities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9463707, member: 2844"]In Europe this bird would be called a vulture, so I think your charming carving was made in North America. Our buzzard is a bird that sort of looks like a small eagle. The first Europeans in North America didn't know much about birds, and they called the buzzards they saw 'hawks', which they aren't, but they called vultures 'buzzards'. They also made mistakes naming plants btw. They had other priorities.[/QUOTE]
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