Biology:Pandion (bird)

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Short description: Genus of birds

Pandion
2010-kabini-osprey.jpg
Osprey, Pandion haliaetus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Pandionidae
Sclater & Salvin, 1873
Genus: Pandion
Savigny, 1809
Pandion global range.svg
Global range of Pandion

Pandion is a genus of fish-eating bird of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae. Most taxonomic treatments have regarded this genus as containing a single living species, separated into subspecies and found worldwide near water, while some treatments recognize two living species, splitting off the eastern osprey (Pandion (haliaetus) cristatus) from Australia and southeast Asia.[1]

Species

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Osprey mg 9605.jpg Pandion haliaetus Osprey Cosmopolitan distribution

Extinct (fossil) species:

  • Pandion homalopteron Warter 1976
  • Pandion lovensis Becker 1985

References

  1. Reader's digest complete book of Australian birds. (2nd rev. 1st ed.). Reader's Digest Services. 1982. p. 114. ISBN 0909486638. 

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