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The Bashful Buzzard is a 7-minute animated cartoon completed in 1944 and released on September 15, 1945. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is directed by Robert Clampett and is the second to feature the character Beaky Buzzard .
Beaky Buzzard (initially known as "Killer") is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. [ 4 ] He is a young turkey vulture (sometimes called a "buzzard" in the United States) with black body feathers and a white tuft around his throat.
The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) [2] is a medium-to-large bird of prey which has a large range. It is a member of the genus Buteo [2] in the family Accipitridae. [2] The species lives in most of Europe and extends its breeding range across much of the Palearctic as far as northwestern China (), far western Siberia and northwestern Mongolia.
Buteo is a genus of medium to fairly large, wide-ranging raptors with a robust body and broad wings. In the Old World, members of this genus are called "buzzards", but "hawk" is used in the New World (Etymology: Buteo is the Latin name of the common buzzard [1]).
A buzzard egg is mysteriously delivered to two sparrows, Gwendolyn and Monte (parodies of actors Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume).The "upper crusty" and very proper English Sparrows are not accustomed to having a repulsively ugly (and incredibly stupid) little bird about, but Gwendolyn convinces her husband that the baby bird will grow into a "beautiful swan".
It marks the first appearance of Beaky Buzzard (named "Killer" in this story) in a Warner Bros. short. [2] The title is a Brooklyn-accented way of saying "gets the bird", which can refer to an obscene gesture, or as simply the "Bronx cheer"; in this case, it is also used metaphorically, as Bugs "gets" the bird (Beaky) by playing a trick.
The word buzzard is used by North Americans to refer to this bird, yet in the Old World that term refers to members of the genus Buteo. [10] The turkey vulture was first formally described by Carl Linnaeus as Vultur aura in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae , and characterised as " V. fuscogriseus, remigibus nigris, rostro albo " ("brown ...
Crested honey buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) Long-tailed honey buzzard (Henicopernis longicauda) Lizard buzzard (Kaupifalco monogrammicus) Rufous-winged buzzard (Butastur liventer) White-eyed buzzard (Butastur teesa) In parts of the US, the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is colloquially called a "buzzard".