[4] He is a young turkey vulture (sometimes called a "buzzard" in the United States) with black body feathers and a white tuft around his throat.

[1][6] The cartoon's plot revolves around the hopeless attempts of the brainless buzzard, here called Killer, to catch Bugs Bunny for his domineering Eastern European mother back at the nest.

[1][6] Clampett brought the character back in the 1945 film The Bashful Buzzard,[10] a cartoon that closely mirrors its predecessor, only this time featuring Beaky's hapless hunting (contrasting with the war-like formation flying and dive bombing of his brothers)[11] without Bugs as an antagonist.

Rogers reprised his role as the character's voice for the film,[10] but he was killed[1] in a Naval aviation training accident at Pensacola, Florida before finishing all his dialogue.

Beaky Buzzard appeared in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries in the episode "3 Days & 2 Nights of the Condor",[15] where he was voiced by Jeff Bennett.

Beaky appeared in The Looney Tunes Show in the second-season episode "Ridiculous Journey", voiced by Jim Cummings.

[16] In more recent decades, Beaky appeared in a print spinoff of Space Jam in 1997, as well as in occasional issues of DC's modern-day Looney Tunes comic book.