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the patient undertaker of the sky, paid in roadkill and reeking glory.
means A buzzard is a large bird of prey — in Britain a soaring hawk of the genus Buteo, in North America a vulture — that hunts or scavenges, often eating dead animals.
from From Old French 'busard,' itself from Latin 'buteo,' a kind of hawk. The British kept the word for those broad-winged Buteo hawks, but American settlers, eyeing the carrion-eating vultures overhead, hung the name on them instead — which is why a British buzzard hunts live prey and an American buzzard waits for things to die. The word also drifted into insult: an old or worthless 'buzzard' is a contemptible person, by way of the bird's reputation for greed and patience over the dead.
- iron stomach
- Digests anthrax and botulism that would kill you
- piss defense
- Urinates on its legs to cool down and sterilize
- vomit weapon
- Projectile-pukes acid to deter attackers
- bald purpose
- Featherless head stays clean while burrowing in corpses
- smell radar
- Detects dead bodies from over a mile away
common buzzard — most abundant raptor in europe, found across eurasia and africa with populations in the millions
red-tailed hawk — north american buzzard, most common raptor in the us, named for distinctive rust-colored tail feathers
turkey vulture — large dark vulture across the americas, often misidentified as buzzard, uses smell to locate carrion