{"id":402,"date":"2015-01-11T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/?p=402"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:06:55","slug":"ospreys-as-fishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/ospreys-as-fishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable fishers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Osprey<\/p>\n

\"Osprey
Osprey carrying a Chub (Squalius cephalus) in its talons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ospreys\u00a0are the only diurnal raptor to feed\u00a0almost\u00a0entirely on live fish, and their fishing skills are\u00a0legion. Flying or hovering high\u00a0in the sky,\u00a0they make spectacular dives into the water once a potential prey is spotted. With luck\u00a0they will then snatch their fish with their enormous talons, firmly gripping it with their reversible toe<\/a>. They generally take fish that either live in shallow water or at the top\u00a010-20 cm of the water column, for example chub or roach.\u00a0\u00a0Unlike species like cormorants or grebes,\u00a0Ospreys do not dive and swim underwater.<\/p>\n

At times it seems that the fish is too large for the bird to carry, and there are even reports of an Osprey being unable to\u00a0release a fish that is too heavy, causing the bird to drown. There are no documented cases of this actually happening, but the story is repeated in many places.\u00a0 We will believe it when we see it!<\/p>\n

A fantastic video of an Osprey fishing can be seen here<\/a>,\u00a0showing the North American subspecies, which is not the same as the subspecies found in Europe (see taxonomy).<\/p>\n

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Ospreys\u00a0are the only diurnal raptor to feed\u00a0almost\u00a0entirely on live fish, and their fishing skills are\u00a0legion. Flying or hovering high\u00a0in the sky,\u00a0they make spectacular dives into the water once a potential prey is spotted. With luck\u00a0they will then snatch their fish with their enormous talons, firmly gripping it with their reversible toe. They generally take fish … Continue reading Remarkable fishers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osprey-biology","tag-osprey-biology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5MO3H-6u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}