Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Osprey with a successful catch photographed from the observation deck on Lake Hancock off of Alligator Alley Trail in Circle B Bar Reserve located in Polk County Lakeland Florida U.S.A.
The ospreys’ extensive breeding range extends to all the continents except South America (where it occurs widely in winter) and the Antarctic. The North American population declined greatly after 1947 because of the eggshell-thinning effects of DDT residues but began to recover after the pesticide was banned in 1972. Exterminated from the British Isles by 1910, the osprey reappeared there as a successfully breeding species in the 1950s and is now firmly reestablished in Scotland. Britannica
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Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Osprey with a successful catch photographed from the observation deck on Lake Hancock off of Alligator Alley Trail in Circle B Bar Reserve located in Polk County Lakeland Florida U.S.A.
The ospreys’ extensive breeding range extends to all the continents except South America (where it occurs widely in winter) and the Antarctic. The North American population declined greatly after 1947 because of the eggshell-thinning effects of DDT residues but began to recover after the pesticide was banned in 1972. Exterminated from the British Isles by 1910, the osprey reappeared there as a successfully breeding species in the 1950s and is now firmly reestablished in Scotland. Britannica
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