How To Use Osprey In A Sentence

He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
Good fishing for sportsmen and women also means good fortune for those who must feed their families almost entirely by fishing - loons, ospreys, bald eagles and cormorants.
Among the nearly 200 species found here are thicket tinamou, brown pelican, osprey, king vulture, and laughing gull.
At the top of the tree, a huge osprey nest that should have been full of life lay empty and deserted.
■ The most important habitat requirement for Osprey is an ample supply of medium-sized fish near the surface of clear, unpolluted water. Osprey webcam thrills bird lovers as Lady of the Loch awaits mate

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Just months after Edwards Dam was removed, birds such as ospreys, bald eagles, and kingfishers returned.
Also, the undersides of an osprey's feet are covered in spiny spicules which prevent fish from wriggling free.
The sole survivor of three chicks hatched by a record-breaking pair of ospreys has taken its first tentative flight from its eyrie in Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland. Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick
At the moment it is illegal to own eggs stolen from protected birds in Britain, such as ospreys, sea eagles and golden eagles.
The site has a rich marine fauna and is a key site for species such as osprey and bearded vultures. Scandola Nature Reserve & Capes Girolata and Porto, France
Interesting marsh birds found in the reclaimed areas include egrets Egretta alba, E. garzetta and E. intermedia, purple heron Ardea purpurea (a rare vagrant from Africa) and green-backed heron Butorides striatus, while birds of prey include osprey Pandion haliaetus, Pallas's sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus (R), white-bellied sea-eagle H. leucogaster, grey-headed fishing eagle Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus, peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus, Oriential hobby F. severus, northern eagle owl Bubo bubo and brown fish owl Ketupa zeylonensis. Sundarbans National Park, India
He was carefully conveyed to the boat; the _Osprey_ was safely beached, high and dry, and loaded with stones to prevent her being buffeted by the winds again, until such time as she could be removed; and the boys, with lightened hearts, scrambled into the haaf-boat, carrying with them all their campaigning effects. Viking Boys
Several previously declining bird species are now thriving, including the red kite, marsh harrier, osprey, honey buzzard and whooper swan. Times, Sunday Times
MRS YELVERTON BARRY: _ (In lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength ivory gloves, wearing a sabletrimmed brickquilted dolman, a comb of brilliants and panache of osprey in her hair) _ Arrest him, constable. Ulysses
On July 19, 2003 a non-viable, addled osprey egg was collected from a nest at the northern end of Upper Richardson Lake in Richardsontown Township in western Maine.
No matter what the official requirement said, Rivolo thought the Osprey needed to be able to autorotate to a landing like a helicopter, and in the late 1990s he checked with Navair to make sure autorotation landings were going to be done in flight tests. The Dream Machine
In addition to rare plants and wildflowers, you'll find hawks and ospreys lining the river and a host of waders along the shoreline.
He worried about the future of the golden eagle, the osprey and the nightingale and he condemned the persecution of the bullfinch.
Birds of concern include the brown pelican, lesser tern, osprey, black rail, clapper rail, California gnatcatcher and savannah sparrow. Southern California Coast (Bailey)
Lucien informed them that the osprey is a bird common to both The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
The creek also is home to ospreys and great blue herons.
Achnacloich Loch does not come with its own dream house, a fact that will no doubt please the ospreys and other birds that prefer the quiet life.
Ospreys live near rivers, estuaries, salt marshes, lakes, reservoirs, and other large bodies of water.
The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
Unlike a helicopter, the tiltrotor had a wing and could fly like an airplane, so in theory, if an Osprey lost both engines, it might glide to a safe landing with its rotors pointed forward rather than autorotate to the ground with the rotors pointed up. The Dream Machine
In the five years since we came here, I have recorded eight species of raptor flying over the garden, including hobby, peregrine, merlin, osprey and marsh harrier. Birdwatch: Kestrel
Its skies were often darkened by blizzards of snow geese and immense flocks of great blue herons, swans, diving ducks, terns, pintails, mallards, Canada geese, osprey, bald eagles and more.
Mason told her what birds ' pictures sold the best to magazines and stock agencies: eagles, hawks, owls, falcons, osprey, and kestrels. FLIGHT LESSONS
The blind-side flanker is expected to join the Ospreys. Times, Sunday Times
The former world player of the year was due to hang up his boots and take up an ambassadorial role with Ospreys. The Sun
There is wildlife here in abundance; deer, wild cats, red squirrels, golden eagles, ospreys and reindeer.
Millions of people have followed the private lives of the Lakes osprey and watched as the five young have been successfully reared in the nest over the last four years.
The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
Boasting buzzards, merlins, kestrels, peregrines, and ospreys, the county has ten of a total UK species of 15-making it one of the nation's key habitats.
They can also see puffins, ospreys, ptarmigans, gannets, and a springtime explosion of breeding birds on the coastal cliffs.
As you explore the tidal marshes and brackish ponds, remember to look upward from time to time: for osprey and terns diving in the sky and bald eagles on top of the tallest pines.
It's part of Niumi National Park, and there are 11 km of sandy beaches frequented only by the occasional osprey fishing over the sea or a flock of sanderling scooting along the sand.
Porpoises, snow-white terns sitting on drifting wood, sea-eagles, ospreys, sea-snakes, sails, the smudge of steamer-smoke and its ten-mile plume, sunlit isles and speckless sky, with no sound save the purring of the engine and the prattle of the water against the bows — a catalogue of the commonplace, and yet stimulative of entertainment and content. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
Tens of thousands of hawks, kites, falcons, eagles, osprey, vultures, and harriers appear in the skies over the Golden Gate from August through December.
At Laurel Hill, you can spot waders such as herons, egrets, bitterns and glossy ibis, and predators such as ospreys, hawks, falcons and owls, with even the occasional bald eagle.
Pete takes us inside the lives and minds of all thirty-four species of diurnal raptors found in North America - hawks, falcons, eagles, vultures, the osprey and the harrier.
The osprey is a cuter as well as a heavier bird, and, in the phrase of the blacks, "That fella carn let go! My Tropic Isle
But they're finding it difficult to get research support for their concerns about ospreys and sea eagles.
The osprey is a bird of the falcon tribe, and one of the largest of the genus -- measuring two feet from bill to tail, with an immense spread of wing in proportion, being nearly six feet from tip to tip. Popular Adventure Tales
An osprey flying past with a fish in its talons was another bonus while a dusky flycatcher hawked insects from various perches around the garden.
He worried about the future of the golden eagle, the osprey and the nightingale and he condemned the persecution of the bullfinch.
The osprey pair, who mate for life, will share the task of warming the egg in their Scots Pine tree nest over the next 40 days until it hatches.
The Kvarken Archipelago is on an important migratory route and offers excellent breeding habitats for birds: There are important Baltic populations of black guillemot Cepphus grille (6,000 pairs, a quarter of the Baltic population) and razorbill Alca torda (1,000 pairs); also Caspian and Arctic terns Sterna caspia and S. paradisea, whitetailed eagle Haliaetus albicilla (35 pairs), osprey Pandion haliaetus andgreat scaup Aythya marila. Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden
Since making their home at Bassenthwaite in 2001, the first ospreys to do so for 150 years, the ospreys have successfully reared four young.
The two-try win saw Ospreys seal their fifth victory in six games and end a run of five successes for the Warriors.
Ortiz and his field office director at the time, Fernando ‘Pino’ Rubio del Valle, pointed out several birds with North American relatives - orioles and anhinga - and an osprey, which migrates between North and South America.
This also happens to be where Scotland's most emblematic birds are flying: golden eagles, ospreys, sea eagles, whooper swans, grouse etc.
As we stroll on, we hear ovenbirds, see a towhee in the brush, and, down at Lake Perez, see a wood duck, tree swallows, a pair of spotted sandpipers, an osprey, and quite possibly the fattest robin I've ever seen.
I won't soon forget the crisp sound of snapping wood in the clear desert air that morning, or the slow powerful wingbeats of the osprey as it made its flight toward home.
You can visit all but three of the islands and paddle your heart out through preserved salt marsh on the eastern shores, where you might see ospreys, pelicans, egrets, or a bald eagle.
An eagle flew overhead, then a bird Alex said was called an osprey. Judge deveraux
SEATTLE (3-7): According to the Web site 10000birds. com, "seahawk" is actually a nickname for the osprey, a large, long-winged bird of prey. SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
Life at the marina brings her close to nature, especially the abundant birds such as blue herons and ospreys, as well as some great dock neighbors.
The islands are home to many bird species, including fish eagles, ospreys and flamingos.
It would be unwise to keep Koi if you live on the flight path of migrating osprey - they'll scoff the lot, as will herons.
In addition to rare plants and wildflowers, you'll find hawks and ospreys lining the river and a host of waders along the shoreline.
An osprey chick hatched this year took its first flight this weekend from its pine tree eyrie in the Lake District, the organisations involved in watching over the birds announced yesterday.
Ospreys on their southward journeys flew in widely spaced single file above the marsh, some flapping deeply, others soaring gull-like, with wings bowed.
Green, Wood and Common Sandpipers are regular on passage, as are Ospreys.
The carcasses of ospreys, white-tailed sea eagles, deer, black and white storks and herons are also being found.
The osprey is a cuter as well as a heavier bird, and, in the phrase of the blacks, “That fella carn let go!” My Tropic Isle
The only movement was the flapping of a hawk or the swoop of a diving osprey, the only sound the gentle lapping of water on the shore.
Some of the most common birds of prey here, the bald eagle, peregrine falcon, and osprey, are fish-eaters, though the hawk owl is not.
You'll find eagles on the beautiful Isle of Skye and ospreys at Loch Garten, nesting red-throated divers in Islay, and corncrakes in Lewis.
The carcasses of ospreys, white-tailed sea eagles, deer, black and white storks and herons are also being found.
The list contains red kites, golden eagles, ospreys, goshawks and even domestic cats.
Since the pesticide's ban in this country, the osprey population has rebounded, and the birds are now re-establishing themselves throughout the East Coast.
Not that this advantage was necessary for the Ospreys, for they were now in ebullient and expressive form. Times, Sunday Times
Wherever you look, fish are jumping out of the placid water, landing with audible plips and plops, while ospreys swoop down to pluck up dinner.
Calendar buyers will learn that it is the third time in 150 years that wild osprey have nested and reared young at Bassenthwaite Lake.
Im currently thinking about one of the minimi pouches from uktactical on the osprey with the rest in a daysack. Army Rumour Service
Before the end of his treatment a specialist at the Great Western Hospital's Osprey Unit said his tumour had reduced from the size of a melon to that of an orange.
Eggs from the fish-eating osprey, a magnificent bird of prey with a six-foot wingspan, are particularly highly-prized because of their distinctive markings.
Between March and September the rare osprey visits and there are duck, geese, swans, grouse, herons and buzzards.
Even so, recalled one former Osprey developmental test pilot, in the late 1990s there were “a number of people at Bell and Boeing who were making claims” that the Osprey could autorotate to a safe landing. The Dream Machine
Diving to score a try against the Ospreys but stopping dead three inches short and the ball popping out: no try.
Ospreys are making their way south from Scotland in a leisurely way. Times, Sunday Times
How many boats going at high speeds are noticing the osprey, bald eagles and alligators?
With a little luck and patience, you can see moose, pronghorns, bighorn sheep, coyotes, wolves, black bears, and grizzlies as well as ospreys, trumpeter swans, bald eagles, and lots of other birds.
Secondly, it's a seasonal reminder that ospreys and other birds that do not winter with us have either returned here to breed or are on their way from distant shores.
The forest is, of course, most famous for its ospreys but Peter says the Scottish crossbill, wonderfully adapted for life in the pine forest, is also a local treasure.
Not that this advantage was necessary for the Ospreys, for they were now in ebullient and expressive form. Times, Sunday Times
Ospreys are making their way south from Scotland in a leisurely way. Times, Sunday Times
Nearby was Colonel Dan Schultz, the program manager, feeling antsier than he had the day the Osprey returned to flight three months earlier. The Dream Machine
They also support a number of threatened and endangered bird species like the capercaillie, the osprey, and the ptarmigan.
In recent years fanfare accompanied the return of species like the osprey and red kite in England and the white-tailed eagle in Scotland.
That year, he and chief Osprey test pilot Tom Macdonald argued the autorotation issue raucously in front of the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican with a son in the Marine Corps. The Dream Machine
This creek, popular with fishermen, also is a good spot to sight ospreys and bald eagles.
There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
As well as grouse watching, Dan and his colleagues also give informal tours around the reserve for young ornithologists keen to spot merlins, buzzards and ospreys.
The 35-year-old has been released by the Ospreys despite still having 11 months to run on his contract.
Ospreys are fish hawks as large as eagles. Times, Sunday Times
We saw a great white pine with a huge stick nest on top, probably that of an osprey.
He worried about the future of the golden eagle, the osprey and the nightingale and he condemned the persecution of the bullfinch.
Ospreys have been recorded annually since 1947, except in 1948, but since 1961 numbers have almost doubled.
Birds such as osprey Pandion haliaetus and peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus occur within the designated areas. Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaíno, Mexico
The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
Meanwhile, the Osprey hovered over the battery reclamation area. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
Tens of thousands of hawks, kites, falcons, eagles, osprey, vultures, and harriers appear in the skies over the Golden Gate from August through December.
Just months after Edwards Dam was removed, birds such as ospreys, bald eagles, and kingfishers returned.
Among the nearly 200 species found here are thicket tinamou, brown pelican, osprey, king vulture, and laughing gull.
When the Osprey moved on, we turned our attention to the numerous sparrows moving around the field and hedgerow.
There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
In 1995, as Navair and the Marines were preparing to ask a high-level Pentagon committee to approve Low Rate Initial Production, the implied requirement that the Osprey be able to autorotate was watered down even more. The Dream Machine
An osprey swept overhead, moving like paper on the breeze down towards the lake. THE LAST RAVEN
More than 70 varieties of birds breed on and around the lake, including the famous ospreys, tufted ducks, goldeneyes, coots, pochards, mallards and widgeons.
The islands are home to many bird species, including fish eagles, ospreys and flamingos.
Untroubled by these strange events, a young woman walks calmly towards the castle, a little further on, carrying a basket of eggs and butter on her head, and above her some new kind of osprey flies away with a protesting pike. The Story of Rouen
There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
Look at our results this season and only two teams have whipped us, the Ospreys and Toulouse.
Ospreys scrum-half Jason Spice moved the ball from a ruck and Henson put fellow centre Sonny Parker in for the opening try of the game.
There is wildlife here in abundance; deer, wild cats, red squirrels, golden eagles, ospreys and reindeer.
With a little luck and patience, you can see moose, pronghorns, bighorn sheep, coyotes, wolves, black bears, and grizzlies as well as ospreys, trumpeter swans, bald eagles, and lots of other birds.
Now, though, rather than fight head-on, they were trying to strangle the Osprey to death with the jungly tangle of rules, reviews, and regulations known as the “defense acquisition process.” The Dream Machine
In recent years fanfare accompanied the return of species like the osprey and red kite in England and the white-tailed eagle in Scotland.
Not even a coot presented itself among the boats and docks, but I finally saw an Osprey at a great distance.
Between March and September the rare osprey visits and there are duck, geese, swans, grouse, herons and buzzards.
Osprey Ridge and Eagle Pines sweeten the deal for the oldsters.
When they attacked, Parks was invariably the fulcrum, prompting and probing with his educated boot and exposing the Ospreys' frailty in midfield.
There have been 68 incidents of egg theft, including those belonging to golden eagles, osprey, goshawk, and peregrine, as well as 33 cases of illegal taking and selling of birds of prey.
The ability to autorotate had always been expected of helicopters, but from the time the Osprey was still called the JVX, whether the helicopter-airplane hybrid was required to be able to autorotate to a landing had been open to interpretation. The Dream Machine
Around the lake we could see samples of most of Florida's native birds, such as osprey, anhinga, eagles, hawks, and herons.
For example, blue-footed booby and osprey nestlings fought more when hungry, but great egrets, blue herons and swallow-tailed kites did not.
Around the lake we could see samples of most of Florida's native birds, such as osprey, anhinga, eagles, hawks, and herons.
Dunn was sure the pronounced twist of its rotors, their light weight, and its high disk loading meant the Osprey would never be able to “autorotate” to a safe landing if it lost power in both engines, something helicopters always had been expected to do. The Dream Machine
They can also see puffins, ospreys, ptarmigans, gannets, and a springtime explosion of breeding birds on the coastal cliffs.
The Ospreys struggled to secure quality first-phase possession, naively throwing long at the lineout, which often yielded possession back to the enthusiastic Blues.
In addition to rare plants and wildflowers, you'll find hawks and ospreys lining the river and a host of waders along the shoreline.
Pete takes us inside the lives and minds of all thirty-four species of diurnal raptors found in North America - hawks, falcons, eagles, vultures, the osprey and the harrier.
Besides nest robbers such as the great horned owl and the raven, and a couple of egg-sucking varmints like the raccoon, there isn't much in nature that ospreys fear.
He will continue to work for the Ospreys in an ambassadorial role, alongside media and business commitments. Times, Sunday Times
Frequent winter visitors to the mangrove lagoons, are the Belted Kingfisher and the regal Osprey.
Yes, the osprey was a wonderful fisherman, who could snatch a fish from the water in his sure claws. Bird Stories
At Laurel Hill, you can spot waders such as herons, egrets, bitterns and glossy ibis, and predators such as ospreys, hawks, falcons and owls, with even the occasional bald eagle.
The creek also is home to ospreys and great blue herons.
Boasting buzzards, merlins, kestrels, peregrines, and ospreys, the county has ten of a total UK species of 15-making it one of the nation's key habitats.
There is wildlife here in abundance; deer, wild cats, red squirrels, golden eagles, ospreys and reindeer.

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