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Pandion haliaetus (Osprey)

Synonyms: Falco haliaetus (homotypic); Falco spec (pro parte)
Language: French; Spanish

Infraspecies

Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (North American osprey)
Pandion haliaetus haliaetus (Eurasian osprey)
Pandion haliaetus ridgwayi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
29
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
51
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 56.0632
EDGE Score: 4.04416
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Attributes

Clutch Size [8]  3
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [6]  53 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  630,000
Incubation [4]  38 days
Mating Display [9]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [9]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [4]  32 years
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [10]  158
Snout to Vent Length [6]  23 inches (58 cm)
Speed [11]  29.751 MPH (13.3 m/s)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Coastal, Brackish Water
Wing Span [11]  5.248 feet (1.6 m)
Adult Weight [2]  3.366 lbs (1.527 kg)
Birth Weight [4]  50 grams
Female Weight [7]  3.457 lbs (1.568 kg)
Male Weight [7]  3.093 lbs (1.403 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [7]  11.8 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Wetlands, Beaches and estuaries
Wintering Geography [3]  Widespread
Wintering Habitat [3]  Wetlands, Coastal saltmarshes
Diet [5]  Piscivore
Diet - Fish [5]  100 %
Forages - Water Surface [5]  60 %
Forages - Underwater [5]  40 %
Female Maturity [4]  3 years
Male Maturity [4]  3 years

Ecoregions

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Emblem of

Nova Scotia

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle)[12]
Bubo virginianus (Great Horned Owl)[12]
Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile)[12]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[12]
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)[12]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 6Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 7Brown, L., and D. Amadon. 1968. Eagles, hawks, and falcons of the world. McGraw-Hill, New York.
♦ 8Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 9Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 10Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 11Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
♦ 12Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 13Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney and A. M. Kuris (in press) Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics (eds S. Collinge and C. Ray). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
♦ 14Myotis vivesi, Brad R. Blood and Mary K. Clark, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 588, pp. 1-5 (1998)
♦ 15National Geographic Magazine - May 2016 - Yellowstone - The Carnivore Comeback
♦ 16Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0