A Fish - Eating Bird Royalty-Free Stock Photo

The photograph was taken at Ganga riverbed Malda, West Bengal, India in the month of December. This is a Photo of a Osprey.The osprey or more specifically the western osprey Pandion haliaetus — also called 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 on the head and underparts.The osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. It is found on all continents except Antarctica, although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant.