osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus) Title: Flora scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides
Year: 1777 (1770s)
Authors: Lightfoot, John, 1735-1788
Subjects: Botany Botany
Date 1777
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The osprey (Pandion haliaetus)—also called fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk—is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. As its other common names suggest, the osprey's diet consists almost exclusively of fish.
