osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus) English: An Expert
Subject: Birds of prey
Tag: Water birds
Date 1899
Source/Photographer
English: (1899) Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York for 1898, Albany, New York: State of New York, p. 112
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_41557_An_Expert.jpeg
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.
