Additional Information
English Western Osprey
Scientific (Pandion haliaetus)
Order ACCIPITRIFORMES
Family (Latin) Pandionidae
Family (English) Ospreys
Other name(s) Osprey, Balbuzard pêcheur
Regions Worldwide
Breeding Range Subregions widespread, except AU and Sulawesi
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Nepal,Cayman Islands,Somalia,Guinea,Turks and Caicos Islands,Guyana,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Peru,Indonesia,Argentina,Portugal,Nigeria,Netherlands Antilles,Japan,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Maldives,Bangladesh,Brazil,Paraguay,Ecuador - mainland,Mali,Croatia,Virgin Islands,Swaziland,Jamaica,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,Madagascar,India - mainland,Belize,Botswana,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Bahamas,Taiwan,Serbia,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Thailand,Singapore,Belarus,Netherlands,Vietnam,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Germany,San Marino,Burkina Faso,Monaco,Chile,Palestine,French Guiana,Uzbekistan,Haiti,Costa Rica,France,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Guam,Cambodia,Libya,Panama,Rwanda,North Korea,Uruguay,Syria,Benin,Puerto Rico,Mongolia,Hungary,Zambia,Trinidad and Tobago,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,Hong Kong,Sri Lanka,Suriname,China,Sierra Leone,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Estonia,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Guatemala,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Turkmenistan,Honduras,Ireland,Qatar,Nicaragua,Philippines,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Ghana,Mexico,Djibouti,El Salvador,Slovakia,Tajikistan,South Korea,Solomon Islands,Poland,Togo,Cuba,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Bolivia,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Montserrat,Canada,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Dominican Republic,Papua New Guinea,Bermuda,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Palau,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Cape Verde,Jordan,Lesotho,Uganda,Zimbabwe,Bhutan,Sao Tome and Principe,Yemen,Colombia,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Kuwait,Venezuela,Georgia,New Caledonia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Andorra,Albania,United States - Alaska,British Virgin Islands,United States - mainland,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Congo,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,South Sudan,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
haliaetus Europe and Asia
carolinensis Canada to s USA
ridgwayi e Belize, Cuba and Bahamas
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
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German Fischadler
French Balbuzard pêcheur
Chinese 鹗
Japanese ミサゴ
Russian Скопа
Spanish Águila pescadora
Portuguese águia-pescadora / 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).
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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)
EU 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)