osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus)

Query: Birds of prey

Result: 840^th of 1659

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

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Artist François-Nicolas Martinet (1739–1797)
Description
Pandion haliaëtus
Date 1700-1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Buffon I p. 81 pl. 414
Old Latin name Pandion haliaëtus
New Latin name Pandion haliaetus
Common name Nederlands: Visarend
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pandion_halia%C3%ABtus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18100275.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.

Birds of prey
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