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- The osprey (/ ˈɒspri, - preɪ /; Pandion haliaetus), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.
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The osprey (/ ˈ ɒ s p r i,-p r eɪ /; [2] Pandion haliaetus), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish ...
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- There's no such thing as a "seahawk." The Seattle franchise might spell it as one word, but biologists don't. In fact, they don't even use the term to refer to one particular species.
- The Seattle Seahawks' "seahawk" isn't actually a sea hawk. Before every home game, the team releases a trained bird named Taima to fly out of the tunnel before the players, lead them onto the field and get the crowd jazzed up for the game.
- Ospreys live on every continent besides Antarctica. Although they hunt over water, ospreys generally nest on land, within a few miles of either the ocean or a body of fresh water.
- Ospreys have reversible toes. Most other hawks and falcons have their talons arranged in a static pattern: three in the front, and one angled towards the back, as shown in the illustration on the left.
The Hawker Sea Hawk is a British single-seat jet day fighter formerly of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), the air branch of the Royal Navy (RN), built by Hawker Aircraft and its sister company, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft. Although its design originated from earlier Hawker piston-engined fighters, the Sea Hawk was the company's first jet aircraft.
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Depending on where you live, the bird pictured here may be called an osprey, a fish hawk, a river hawk, a sea hawk, or even a fish eagle! To avoid such confusion, scientists use one name, usually derived from Latin, to describe each species. The osprey’s scientific name is Pandion haliaetus. Pandioncomes from Greek mythology about an Athenian king ...
You may notice that the American football team’s name is written as one word, whereas the actual name of the animal is “sea hawk.” In fact, the team’s logo used on helmets and marketing materials is loosely based on a Native American tribe’s transformation mask showing a mythical eagle transforming into a human when the mask is opened. The team doe...
Ospreys live on every continent except Antarctica. Most subspecies of raptors are quite distinctive; for example, the bald eagle, golden eagle, Spanish imperial eagle, and other eagles look very different from one another. Ospreys, on the other hand, have a very similar appearance no matter where they are in the world.
Ospreys are the apex predator in their ecological niche. They specialize in catching and eating fish, which composes 99 percent of their diet. One of their special adaptations that aids them when fishing is the ability to close their nostrils to prevent water going in when they dive for fish. Another adaptation is the dark bands around their eyes, ...
While eating and not being eaten is a great privilege, it also comes with a downside for ospreys. Scientists have demonstrated that certain pollutants get concentrated as they are absorbed along the food chain. This is referred to as bioaccumulation. In a 1967 study on DDT, scientists documented the concentration in sea birds reaching over 200,000 ...
Osprey populations today are doing well, but this was not always the case. As apex predators they ingested large doses of DDT, an insecticide used to kill mosquitoes in the 1950s and 1960s. With their fish diet, ospreys have also been shown to ingest high levels of PCB compounds and heavy metals such as mercury. DDT caused the eggshells of ospreys ...
As sentinel species, ospreys are ideal subjects for citizen science projects. They are large, easily identifiable birds that build conspicuous nests. Many states run annual counts of breeding pairs. In addition to standard banding of birds for identification, New Jersey has introduced a secondary numeric red band on the feet of ospreys, easily visi...
A traditional wedding poem from over 2,500 years ago (http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/poemsShihChing.htm). ‘Fair, fair,’ cry the ospreys On the island in the river. Lovely is this noble lady, Fit bride for our lord. In patches grows the water mallow: To left and right one must seek it. Shy was this noble lady; Day and night h...
Jan 29, 2015 · The Seattle Seahawks are great football players and all, but their team name got us wondering: What do we really know about the seahawk?
- Jesse Greenspan
It’s Taima, a captive-bred Augur Hawk that has accompanied the team before every home game since 2007. Image: Taima, the Augur Hawk © Adam Sedgley. She is a beautiful representative of a species from the aridlands of East Africa, hardly a hawk of the sea. So, what is a “Seahawk”? The colors of the Seattle team’s logo aren’t helpful.
The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West, which they rejoined in 2002 as part of a conference realignment. The club entered the NFL as an expansion team in 1976 in the NFC.
