osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus) Description
English: Osprey - Pandion haliaetus, Occoquan Bay Wildlife Refuge, Woodbridge, Virginia
Date 12 April 2009, 07:51:33
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/52450054@N04/6861369520/
Author Judy Gallagher https://www.flickr.com/photos/52450054@N04/
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osprey_-_Pandion_haliaetus,_Occoquan_Bay_Wildlife_Refuge,_Woodbridge,_Virginia_-_6861369520.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. The osprey was one of the many species described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, and named as Falco haliaeetus. The genus, Pandion, is the sole member of the family Pandionidae, and used to contain only one species, the osprey (P. haliaetus). The genus Pandion was described by the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809.
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Pandionidae
Genus: Pandion
Species: Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus, 1758)
