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Only, up in the blue, some turkey-buzzards were wheeling with dirty-edged wings, as everywhere in Mexico.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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In the West Indies he had to take his hat around to get the dead out of the way of the turkey-buzzards -- that showed their sympathy.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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Our birds of prey are eagles, vultures, hawks, owls, and the turkey-buzzards, those big black scavengers that hang in the air.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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Meantime the vultures and turkey-buzzards had already begun to assemble, and presently hundreds of them were circling and hovering over the carcasses, which they as yet, however, feared to touch.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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They were glad enough when they saw two or three eagles among a great gathering of crows or turkey-buzzards, and, hastening to the spot, they found the torn carcass of a deer, lately killed by wolves.
French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson
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The small bones of the hands and feet had been taken away by field-mice, and no doubt the turkey-buzzards had stripped the flesh.
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The vultures and turkey-buzzards, that a few minutes before were circling high in the air, are now screaming amidst the branches of the mahogany-trees; every creature that has life is running, scampering, flying -- apes and tigers, birds and creeping things.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various
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Whereas in the valley crows and turkey-buzzards alone enliven the air, and there are scarcely any beetles; up here there is deer and turkey, and the gray wolf; jays and magpies flutter through the thickets, and the horned lizard is met with occasionally.
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He gathered strange shells and crabs, and watched the turkey-buzzards on the shore, and the slow procession of the pelicans, sailing past above the tops of the breakers.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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The small black turkey-buzzards, here always called crows, were as tame as chickens near the big house, walking on the ground or perched in the trees beside the corral, waiting for the offal of the slaughtered cattle.
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