osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus)

Query: River hawk

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Subject:	osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus)
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osprey, fish eagle (Pandion haliaetus)

Description
English: Plate 2 in Volume 1 of The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and Bahamas by Mark Catesby, George Edwards published in 1754. Also mentioned as Accipiter Piscatorius.
Date 28 May 2012
Source The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and Bahamas V. 1 (1754)
Author Mark Catesby, George Edwards
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The-fishing-hawk.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. As its other common names suggest, the osprey's diet consists almost exclusively of fish.

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