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English Osprey
Scientific (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis)
Order ACCIPITRIFORMES
Family (Latin) Pandionidae
Family (English) Ospreys
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions Worldwide
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Angola,Argentina,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahamas, Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belarus,Belize,Benin,Bermuda,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana, Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Cayman Islands, Central African Republic,Chad,Chile,China,Colombia,Congo,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cuba,Cyprus, Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,French Guiana,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany, Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guam,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras, Hong Kong,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Ivory Coast, Jamaica,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon, Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi,Malaysia, Maldives,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Mexico,Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Montenegro,Montserrat, Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,New Caledonia,Nicaragua,Niger, Nigeria,North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palau,Palestine,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Paraguay, Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Solomon Islands,Somalia, South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Swaziland,Sweden,Switzerland, Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Uzbekistan,Venezuela, Vietnam,Virgin Islands,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
carolinensis Canada to s USA
ridgwayi e Belize, Cuba and Bahamas
haliaetus Europe and Asia
cristatus Sulawesi and Java to coastal Australia, Bismarck Is., Solomon Is. and Grande Terre (New Caledonia)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Fischadler
French Balbuzard pêcheur
Chinese 鹗
Japanese ミサゴ
Russian Скопа
Spanish Águila pescadora
Portuguese águia-pesqueira
Bird Data App text A large raptor not too closely related to any another, that lives on a diet of large fish caught by diving into the water like a kingfisher, pelican or tern. Osprey's migrate, but seem to migrate until they find a place they like (some halfway across the world, while others hardly at all). The Eastern Osprey and smaller Western Osprey (found along Australia's rivers) where recently joined into one species.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)