On guard

Female Osprey protects her eggs & babies 24 hours a day while the male continually seeks to brings food to the nest.

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"Nesting Ospreys defend only the immediate area around their nest rather than a larger territory; they vigorously chase other Ospreys that encroach on their nesting areas.

 

Unique among North American raptors for its diet of live fish and ability to dive into water to catch them.

 

Ospreys are unusual among hawks in possessing a reversible outer toe that allows them to grasp with two toes in front and two behind. Barbed pads on the soles of the birds' feet help them grip slippery fish. When flying with prey, an Osprey lines up its catch head first for less wind resistance.

 

The Osprey readily builds its nest on man-made structures, such as telephone poles, channel markers, duck blinds, and nest platforms designed especially for it.

 

Osprey are long-distance migrants. Most Ospreys that breed in North America migrate to Central and South America for the winter"

From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

 

 

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