Osprey Breakfast at the beach

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Uploaded by on Jan 3, 2008

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), also known colloquially as seahawk, fish hawk or fish eagle Bird of prey.
The Roman writer Pliny the Elder reported that parent Ospreys made their young fly up to the sun as a test, and dispatch any that failed. There was a medieval belief that fish were so mesmerised by the Osprey that they turned belly-up in surrender,[32] and this is referenced by Shakespeare in Act 4 Scene 5 of Coriolanus:

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