Adult Osprey On Platform Nest Yellow Eye Watchful For Mate Stock Photo

The osprey and owls are the only raptors whose outer toe is reversible, allowing them to grasp their prey with two toes in front and two behind. Ospreys have vision that is well adapted to detecting underwater objects from the air. Ospreys renovate their old nests each season, and some of such nests may be used for 70 years. Ospreys search for fish by flying on steady wingbeats and bowed wings or circling high in the sky over relatively shallow water. They often hover briefly before diving, feet first, to grab a fish. You can often clearly see an Osprey`s catch in its talons as the bird carries it back to a nest or perch. The Osprey is the only hawk on the continent that eats almost exclusively live fish.