osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus) Description
Osprey , Pandion haliaetus, chromolithograph after painting (watercolor or acrylic)
Date 1901
Source The Second Book of Birds
Author Louis Agassiz Fuertes (artist), Olive Thorne Miller (author, pseudonym for Harriet Mann)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pandion_haliaetusABP08CA.jpg
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.
