Osprey

Order - Accipitriformes
Family - Pandionidae (Osprey)

Osprey

Pandion haliaetus

鱼鹰 (yú-yīng) / 鹗 (è)

    Malay : Helang-Tiram

    Japanese : ミサゴ (misago) / ショキュウ (shokyū) / ウオタカ (uo-taka) / スドリ (su-dori)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 鶚 / 雎鳩 / 魚鷹 / 州鳥

    Size : 55–58 cm; Wingspan 127–174 cm

             Male 990–1800g, Female 1200–2050g

    

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Pandion haliaetus haliaetus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Western Osprey
  – from Britain and Scandinavia E to Kamchatka and Japan, and S to Mediterranean, Red Sea, C China and Taiwan, also Canary Is and Cape Verde Is; winters mainly sub-Saharan Africa (S to S Africa, where occasionally claimed to breed), India, W Indonesia and Philippines.
• Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (J. F. Gmelin, 1788)
  – Alaska E across S Canada to Labrador, and S in USA to California and patchily to N Arizona and Florida, also NW Mexico (Baja California), and has bred Cuba; winters West Indies and Central America S to South America (S to Chile and C Argentina).
• Pandion haliaetus ridgwayi (Maynard, 1887)
  – Caribbean, including Bahamas, Cuba and Belize.
• Pandion haliaetus cristatus (Vieillot, 1816) – Eastern Osprey
  – Borneo, Java and Bali E through Wallacea to New Guinea lowlands (including Bismarck Archipelago), S to coastal Australia, Solomon Is and New Caledonia.

Pandion haliaetus ssp. haliaetus
Date : 24 December 2018

Location : Kamunting Raya Industrial Estate, Kamunting, Daerah Larut, Matang & Selama, Perak

Pandion haliaetus ssp. haliaetus
Date : 24 December 2018

Location : Kamunting Raya Industrial Estate, Kamunting, Daerah Larut, Matang & Selama, Perak

Pandion haliaetus ssp. haliaetus
Date : 24 November 2018

Location : Batu Gajah, Daerah Kinta, Perak

Pandion haliaetus ssp. haliaetus
Date : 24 November 2018

Location : Batu Gajah, Daerah Kinta, Perak

Pandion haliaetus ssp. haliaetus
Date : 03 November 2018
Location : Batu Gajah, Daerah Kinta, Perak