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Photo of the Day #660: Osprey

By laelaps on August 3, 2009.

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An osprey (Pandion haliaetus), photographed while I was kayaking in Cape May, New Jersey.


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We have numerous ospreys around my town (being a river faring town, this makes sense). The other day, though, there was a territorial fight (I believe, we couldn't entirely say for certain what was happening) between some ospreys and our bald eagle couple.

Do any North American Ospreys have a mottled breast? I think all the UK ones do.