Seahawks in the nest

[BlueTalon]

I stumbled across this on my local utility website. I thought it was interesting, and I thought some of you might enjoy seeing it.

http://www.sandpointonline.com/ospreys/

 

[Tokadub]

Cool!

"The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the sea hawk, fish eagle, river hawk or fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. 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."

So that's where Pandion Haliaetus got his user name, I had no idea what that meant sounds like some kind of Greek warrior or something haha. I guess it's a Greek king learn something new ever day.

"The osprey was one of the many species described by Carolus Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, and named as Falco haliaeetus.[2] The genus, Pandion, is the sole member of the family of Pandionidae, and used to contain only one species, the osprey (P. haliaetus). The genus Pandion was described by the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809, and is taken from a mythical Greek king, Pandion."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey

 

[Riley12]

So that's where Pandion Haliaetus got his user name,

Ha! I was thinking the same thing.

I thought his user name was some weird strain of weed.

 

[Anonymous]

So that's where Pandion Haliaetus got his user name,

Ha! I was thinking the same thing.

I thought his user name was some weird strain of weed.

And we now know what Riley has on his mind... :mrgreen: