Osprey banking
Pandion haliaetus
Osprey · Green-Wood Cemetery · 25 April 2026
An Osprey banking steeply over Green-Wood Cemetery in April, back from South America and on its way to a nest on the harbour. Ospreys are on every continent but Antarctica, always near water, and New York's have come back from near-extinction to nest on platforms and channel markers all round the bay.
The dark comma-shaped patch at the wrist and the black mask through the eye are the field marks that separate an osprey from any other large raptor at a distance, even in a bank like this. A reversible outer toe and barbed pads on the soles of the feet exist for no other purpose than gripping a slippery fish pulled straight out of the water.
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