I believe that the officially endorsed common name is "turkey vulture" -- "buzzard" is, or at least used to be, frowned upon. But these things do change. Russell At 07:30 AM 6/6/2007, you wrote: >What we have here are not vultures, though they are usually so named by >folks. They're buzzards. And in my part of New Jersey there are two >species, the typical red-headed turkey buzzard and the (usually >described as a more Southern species) the black-headed buzzard. Russell Stafford Odyssey Bulbs PO Box 382 South Lancaster, MA 01561 508-335-8106