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An Osprey is a fish eating eagle (by its nick name is "fish hawk" or "sea eagle"). It hovers above the water, find a prey with its sharp eye, tangle its feet low and dive to the prey with feet first. When it has a grasp, it struggles out of the water, then wiggles its body to preform a quick rough drying on its feather and find a place to enjoy the meal before someone tries to steal the prey.

The osprey feeds almost exclusively on live fish (sometimes died), by 1-3% it eats amphibians, small mammals and small birds. It might (so less) eat insects.

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