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The osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. It is found on all continents except Antarctica, although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant. As its other common names suggest, the osprey's diet consists almost exclusively of fish.
The eastern osprey (Pandion haliaetus cristatus) is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. They live in Oceania at coastal regions of the Australian continent, the Indonesian islands, New Guinea , and the Philippines .
Pandion is a genus of fish-eating bird of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae.Most taxonomic treatments have regarded this genus as containing a single living species, separated into subspecies and found worldwide near water, while some treatments recognize two living species, splitting off the eastern osprey (Pandion (haliaetus) cristatus) from Australia and southeast ...
Nov. 28—Citizen scientist Kate Webb uses her bird's eye view of the osprey nest outside her window to help identify trends in the raptor population that serve as indicators of the overall health ...
The diet of the honey-buzzards includes not only the adults and young of social insects such as wasps and bees, but the honey and combs from their nests. [ 34 ] The snail kite ( Rostrhamus sociabilis ), slender-billed kite ( Helicolestes hamatus ) and hook-billed kites ( Chondrohierax uncinatus ) are specialists in consuming snails , which ...
An osprey’s daring dive and a bald eagle’s relentless pursuit paint a picture of life in the wild. A reminder of the powerful forces at play in our natural world. From Predator To Prey: A ...
Pellets from a long-eared owl. The alimentary canal of a bird. Long-eared owl pellets and rodent bones obtained from dissected pellets (1 bar = 1 cm). A pellet, in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate.
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