Osprey

Adults are dark brown above whit narrow blackish bands on the tail. They have a white crown, throat and underparts whit black eye patches forming a mask and wrist marks on underwingss.

Our ospreys have built their nest mainly of twigs and branches of all types and sizes. There is also plant and grass material as well as dried seaweed. Some other types of materials are string, rope, polypropylene rope well as plastic material such as supermarket bags. The nest has a lot of depth to it to provide heat retention and as a safety factor for keeping the chick in the nest since nests are mostly built near water or on platforms in the water. Our ospreys had elected to build their nest on the last "dolphin" (a group of three pilings used to secure a dock), of our dock. We had long nails hammered into the tops to keep seagulls off of them. These nails provided a base in which the ospreys were able to lay and weave the foundation for the nest. It took three seasons for our ospreys to build the nest large enough and secure enough to successfully nest and hatch their eggs. The first eggs hatched June12th, 2011. The male is fishing for bunker which he brings to the nest. The female then takes over and feeds herself and her chick from his catch. They are very skittish when nesting, so we elected not to use our boat until after the young ospreys have fledged.

Well, the osprey eat fish from rivers,lakes,and seas. On a website I found, it says that in Scotland, the osprey mostly eat brown trout, rainbow trout, perch, and pikes. These fish are found in the freshwaters,or the rivers and lakes. Also,they eat flounder,sea trout, and further south,they will eat grey mullet in estuaries.

Im just trying to find out if the osprey eat koi. If your trying to figure this out,then sorry,I dont know.

Ospreys defend them selfs by erecting head feathers to look threatening, and striking the attacker with their talons.

Ospreys feed almost entirely on fish, plucked from the water.

it is the male and female that make the nest. if there is only a male then it may be harder to build a bigger nest.

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small rodents also small birds and insects

Wood Pecker.

According to wikipedia, 20 - 25 years.

Ostriches have a long neck with no feathers and a beak and under its neck a big fat body with feathers and wings and under that fat body it has long legs and no feathers on its legs.Plus it is the fasts animal in the world, and its egg's are 2 feet long and 2 to 3 pounds!

The habitat of an Osprey includes, lakes, slow-flowing rivers and streams that include fish averaging 1kg in size. They nest on treetops, usually near water; also on specially made platforms, utility poles or transmission towers.

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Yes, there are Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) in the northern half of Minnesota.

There is no specific name for a Osprey baby other then the generic term Chick(s), the chicks that have finally fledged are simply called Juveniles.

Large broard-winged FISH EATING diurnal bird of prey, with a dark back and whitish head and underparts. Often called a fish hawk.

The great majority of birds of prey are opportunists - if they can easily catch something edible, even if it is not usual prey, and particularly if they are very hungry, they very often will. No doubt some kingfishers will have been eaten by owls, somewhere, at some time.

The fledging period lasts 53 days.

a type of bird that looks like a bald eagle

A raptor, there aren't any specific types of raptors. Raptors are about as specific as it gets.

You can tell by the wingspan. The osprey have a crook at mid span, almost like an elbow. The eagle have a straight wing.

Not exactly, no more so than an eagle is. But still a close relative of hawks, found in the Family Accipitridae.

They normaly migrate to africa

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The osprey nests in a very tall tree within 5 Km of its hunting grounds, which is usually coastal waters, and sometimes tributaries or large rivers.