BUZZARD ISLAND, La. (KTAL/KMSS ... confederacy or even the free state of Caddo,” wrote William Waite in The South-Western on Wed., Mar. 13, 1861. Waite said the citizens of Buzzard Island ...

As the story goes, fishermen and other explorers saw “all the little buzzards,” not knowing that they were actually osprey, the fish-eating bird of prey also called a sea hawk, river hawk and ...