osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus)

Query: Iconographia zoologica

Result: 746^th of 1525

Subject:	osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

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Artist Mark Catesby (1682–1749)
Creator:Johann Michael Seligmann
Description
Pandion carolinensis
Date 1700-1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Edwards I 4
Old Latin name Pandion carolinensis
New Latin name Pandion haliaetus
Common name Nederlands: Visarend
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pandion_carolinensis_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18100281.tif

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.

Iconographia zoologica
746/1525

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