Difference between Turkey Vulture and Turkey Buzzard

TURKEY VULTURE vs TURKEY BUZZARD: NOUN

A New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
A common North American vulture, Cathartes aura.
The turkey-buzzard: more fully called red-headed turkey-vulture.
A widespread vulture (Cathartes aura) found throughout the Americas, having dark plumage and a bare red head and neck similar to that of the turkey.
Common in South America and Central America and southern United States

A New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
An American vulture of the family Cathartidæ, the Cathartes aura, common and wide-spread through the greater part of North and South America: generally so called in the United States in distinction from the black vulture, or carrion-crow, of that country, Catharista atrata: more fully called red-headed turkey-buzzard.
Common in South America and Central America and southern United States

Winter wren, Squirrel, Sandhill crane, Peregrine falcon, Tundra swan, Honey buzzard, Cattle egret, Heron, Egret, Snowy owl, Hummingbird, Bird, Cathartes aura, Buzzard, Turkey buzzard

Junco, Willet, Daddy longlegs, Downy woodpecker, Bird, Longbeard, Greenhead, Pileated, Gray catbird, Grackle, Belted kingfisher, Redheaded woodpecker, Cathartes aura, Buzzard, Turkey vulture

Raptor, Downy woodpecker, Winter wren, Squirrel, Sandhill crane, Peregrine falcon, Tundra swan, Honey buzzard, Cattle egret, Heron, Egret, Snowy owl, Hummingbird, Bird, Turkey buzzard

Northern harrier, Titmouse, Junco, Willet, Daddy longlegs, Downy woodpecker, Bird, Longbeard, Greenhead, Pileated, Gray catbird, Grackle, Belted kingfisher, Redheaded woodpecker, Turkey vulture

Friend Joan reports that she was buzzed by a Turkey Vulture while she was sitting on her dock when we were in Parry Sound.
On the way home Rick Scott, of Curve-billed Thrasher fame, pointed out a Turkey Vulture to us, the first of spring.
After 35 years in Latrobe, you can't mistake that bald, red face of our turkey vulture, for example, for anything else.
Moose, turkey vulture, American bald eagle, black bear, and bobcat populations are expanding and have been regularly sighted in town.
Others to join the turkey vulture is another clue you know the answer.
Turkey Vulture was a huge, huge bird with long and powerful wings.
Turkey Vulture as a symbol in a dream.
Lone Rock is a likely turkey vulture roosting site.
Turkey Vulture is excluded in the following analysis.
Golden Eagle predation of an Adult Turkey Vulture.