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Summary
Early Portuguese visitors mistook the local variety of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Buteo_buteo" title="Buteo buteo">buzzard</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Buzzard" class="extiw" title="en:Common Buzzard">Buteo buteo rothschildi</a>, for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Goshawk" class="extiw" title="en:Northern Goshawk">goshawks</a> (Accipiter gentilis) and the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Portuguese_language" title="Category:Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> word for "goshawk", açor (pl. açores), is the root of the islands' name.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Goshawks also remain a common motif in Azorean <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heraldry" class="mw-redirect" title="Heraldry">heraldry</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vexillology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vexillology (page does not exist)">vexillology</a>.
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| current | 13:47, 4 January 2017 | | 590 × 710 (100 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <div class="description"> Early Portuguese visitors mistook the local variety of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Buteo_buteo" title="Buteo buteo">buzzard</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Buzzard" class="extiw" title="en:Common Buzzard">Buteo buteo rothschildi</a></i>, for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Goshawk" class="extiw" title="en:Northern Goshawk">goshawks</a> (<i>Accipiter gentilis</i>) and the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Portuguese_language" title="Category:Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> word for "goshawk", <i>açor</i> (pl. <i>açores</i>), is the root of the islands' name.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> Goshawks also remain a common motif in Azorean <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heraldry" class="mw-redirect" title="Heraldry">heraldry</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vexillology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vexillology (page does not exist)">vexillology</a>.</div> |
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