The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, or fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey.
We don't know that the Wart is going to become King Arthur until the next-to-last page, by which time Merlyn has educationally transformed him into a fish, a hawk, a goose, an ant and a badger.
Another related species, the fish hawk, is better known by the name osprey.
In the Buffalo zoo, prominently displayed on the aerie housing a Haliacetus leucocephalio, or bald eagle, is a sign saying, "This eagle never fishes for himself if he can rob the more skilled and industrious fish hawk.
A white-headed fishing hawk broods on a low branch as the boat turns in to a narrow passageway between the trees with a one-foot draft, the skiff glides right through the flooded gallery forest.
The fish hawks hungrily plied the bay's resources as jetliners traversed the horizon across the way at Kennedy Airport.
After joining the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., in 1948, Mr. Puleston, a keen ornithologist most of his life, began to study a large breeding colony of ospreys -- birds of prey that live off fish and are sometimes called fish hawks -- on the privately owned Gardiners Island, off eastern Long Island.
Its Quinnipiac name is "Massancummock", meaning "the place of the great fish hawks".
The island name in Quinnipiac was "Massancummock" meaning "the place of the great fish hawks".
All during spring and summer I love to watch the huge fish hawks called Ospreys building up their stick nests, then incubating their eggs, and then raising their chicks.
