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Pandion haliaetus (Osprey)

English: Osprey
Russian: Скопа
German: Fischadler
French: Balbuzard pecheur
Mongolian: Загасч явлаг
Japanese: ミサゴ (Misago)

Body Length: 52-60 cm
Wing span: 152 -167 cm

Habitat: Summer visitor, winters in Africa. In Britain, very rare breeder. Breeds on clear freshwater lakes, in Mediterranean at salt. Food fish, caught after dive. Nests in very top of pine tree.

Identification: Medium-large, long-winged, ventrally pale raptor with unique flight silhouette, wings being narrow with long ‘hand’, having only four ‘fingers’, tail short and square-cut. Wings angled, carpals held forward when gliding, wings in head-on silhouette distinctly bowed and at times recalls Great Black-backed Gull. Hovers (wingbeats heavy) over water and dives feet-first for fish. Upperparts grey-brown, underparts white, underwing with blackish mark.

  • Adult: Upperparts uniformly grey-brown, no white feather tips. Crown white. Greater coverts below all blackish; secondaries dark, barring usually indistinct. Eye yellow. ♂ has on average less prominent brown breast-band than ♀.
  • Juvenile: Feathers of upperparts tipped whitish. Crown white with dark streaks. Greater coverts below white, barred dark; secondaries pale but coarsely barred dark. Eye orange.


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