Buzzards

[peafowl_Lover]

The hen coop is about 4-5 metres away from my door so I'll be able to run out but I've had hens for years and buzzards just fly over way up high in the sky.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

My birds will make that low guttural grow when a silhouette of a raptor passes over, even Vultures or Buzzards, not so much the Crows. If a Hawk lights in a tree near by they really crank up and head for the coop.

 

[Penpal]

Further research on my part shows that in some parts of the country anything flying overhead is a "buzzard". Here, you would mean a vulture. Your photo we would call a "hawk". Yea, bad for chickens. Last year I ran off two red tailed hawks. Not before one killed a chick. I also ran off a Shin that took a chick. I'd never even heard of a Shin before I looked up 'very little bad bird'.

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