Osprey with a catch
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PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON #646. OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE...OSPREY WITH A CATCH [FOR BETTER VIEW USE FULL SCREEN OPTION]... PENCIL...A4.. 2016..[From the photograph of MR. RAHUL ALVAREZ, From the cover of SRISHTI magazine Vol.10 No.3] ... ?#?srishti? ?#?magazine? ... 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. It is a large raptorThe osprey is 0.9–2.1 kg (2.0–4.6 lb) in weight and 50–66 cm (20–26 in) in length with a 127–180 cm (50–71 in) wingspan. It is, thus, of similar size to the largest members of the Buteo or Falco genera. The subspecies are fairly close in size, with the nominate subspecies averaging 1.53 kg (3.4 lb), P. h. carolinensis averaging 1.7 kg (3.7 lb) and P. h. cristatus averaging 1.25 kg (2.8 lb). The wing chord measures 38 to 52 cm (15 to 20 in), the tail measures 16.5 to 24 cm (6.5 to 9.4 in) and the tarsus is 5.2–6.6 cm (2.0–2.6 in). The uppe
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