Pandionidae

<i>Pandion</i> (bird)

Pandion (bird)

Genus of birds

This article is about the bird genus. For other uses, see Pandion (disambiguation).

Pandion is a genus of fish-eating bird of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae. Most taxonomic treatments have regarded this genus as containing a single living species, separated into subspecies and found worldwide near water, while some treatments recognize two living species, splitting off the eastern osprey (Pandion (haliaetus) cristatus) from Australia and southeast Asia.[1]

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Species

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Extinct (fossil) species:

  • †Pandion homalopteron Warter 1976
  • †Pandion lovensis Becker 1985

References

  1. [1]
    Reader's digest complete book of Australian birds (2nd rev. 1st ed.). Reader's Digest Services. 1982. p. 114. ISBN 0909486638.
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