Old World Hooded Vulture Suli, a New World Turkey Vulture. Did you know that Old World and New World Vultures are not closely related? I was very surprised to learn this when I began to work with Suli, the Draper Museum Raptor Experience's Turkey Vulture. read more
The phrases ‘old world’ and ‘new world’ refer to the history of European colonialism, not natural history. The Eastern hemisphere is the ‘old world’ because the European nations AND Oriental empires came from the continents there. read more
When the landless gentry (the second sons of the English nobility) came to the mid-Atlantic shores and started naming the fauna, they looked at the vultures, perhaps misidentified these soaring birds as buteos, knew they were useless as falconry birds, and named them buzzards. read more