Osprey

Osprey On a Branch

OspreyPandion haliaetus

• Large Fish eating birds
• May be larger than 2 feet in length and can have a wing span up to six feet.
• Dark brown on their top and white on the bottom.
• Have prominent dark eye stripes, black patches at the crooks of the wings, which are bent.
• They mate with only one mate.
• They have roughly three eggs a year, every year.
• They usually nest in large trees, but can nest on telephone poles, chimneys, and man made platforms.
• They live anywhere near open water with enough fish.
• Found in PA in the Susquehanna Valley and the Pocono regions.
• They are found on all continents except antarctic.
• It is only listed as "Least Concerned" for the USA.

• The Osprey is a predator.
• It eats fish.

• Habitat Destruction
• Water Pollution
• Pesticides affecting ability to reproduce.

• Raise in captivity and release.
• Monitoring
• Protection
• Artificial Nests built.

Sources: All about birds-www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/**Osprey**/id, Jungle walk-www.junglewalk.com/**info**/**osprey**-**information**.htm, PA game Commission-http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=486&q=152561



Zak Miller And Kevin Mundis