Anyone else notice how the buzzards in game actually look a whole lot like vulchers instead?
Vulcher
(http://i.pbase.com/u10/dryam/upload/37808949.1PbaseIMG_0719ssharp.jpg)
Buzzard
(http://birdblog.merseyblogs.co.uk/Buzzard2.jpg)
Now I'm confused as to which ones they are in game.
Yeah, I noticed that a while back... I always picture them as turkey vultures.
Awwwww but buzzards' are such cooler birds of prey :'(
Quote from: FantasyWriter on August 30, 2009, 10:20:13 PM
Yeah, I noticed that a while back... I always picture them as turkey vultures.
Same for me.
Vulture and buzzard are synonyms, at least in some parts of the English-speaking world.
Quote from: hyzhenhok on September 01, 2009, 03:42:05 AM
Vulture and buzzard are synonyms, at least in some parts of the English-speaking world.
yea, I wouldn't have had any idea.
Aren't they vultures? Probably the same as vulchers. Either way, I would love to see more in the desert areas of the game. Also, vultures/vulchers/buzzards foraging for dead bodies would be cool, and an easier way to find loot.
In American (and South American) English, buzzard = vulture. In Old World English, buzzard = hawk. In Candian English, buzzard hawks you!
American buzzard:
(http://mydogumentary.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/turkeyvulture1.jpg)
UK buzzard:
(http://www.barrywales.co.uk/hawkingcentre/images/buzzard.jpg)
Canadian buzzard:
(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/images/061213-flying.jpg)
Quote from: Yam on September 02, 2009, 07:38:04 PM
American buzzard:
(http://mydogumentary.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/turkeyvulture1.jpg)
I've always called those turkey vultures.
That picture is of a turkey vulture, but American vernacular is to call birds in the Accipitridae or (especially) Cathartidae families.
Quote from: Rhyden on September 02, 2009, 06:55:55 PM
Aren't they vultures? Probably the same as vulchers. Either way, I would love to see more in the desert areas of the game. Also, vultures/vulchers/buzzards foraging for dead bodies would be cool, and an easier way to find loot.
This already happens in some parts of the world, the first time I saw my dead homie get nommed on by birds I smiled.
I'm with Ourla, I always called them vultures and thought buzzards were hawks. Weird though if "buzzard hawks" is a UK thing ... because I grew up in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Michigan primarily and never really picked up on it.