Mighty Fisherman #1

by Dawn Currie

Title

Mighty Fisherman #1

Artist

Dawn Currie

Medium

Photograph - Digital

Description

Photographic art by Dawn Currie. Osprey in flight carrying a very large fish in TM Goodwin Waterfowl Management Area near Fellsmere Florida.

Awards and PSA International Exhibitions:
- 2016 Photographic Society of America (PSA)
- Bundoran 2016 International Exhibition of Photography
- Collectors Gallery
- Digital Photo Archive 2016 3rd International Exhibition of Photography
- Raptors at Risk 2016 Exhibition
- Three Country Grand Circuit 2016 - Ireland

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Osprey (Pandion haliaetus): Unique among North American raptors for its diet of live fish and ability to dive into water to catch them, Ospreys are common sights soaring over shorelines, patrolling waterways, and standing on their huge stick nests, white heads gleaming. An Osprey may log more than 160,000 migration miles during its 15-to-20-year lifetime.

Ospreys are unusual among hawks in possessing a reversible outer toe that allows them to grasp with two toes in front and two behind. Barbed pads on the soles of the birds' feet help them grip slippery fish. When flying with prey, an Osprey lines up its catch head first for less wind resistance.

Ospreys are excellent anglers. Over several studies, Ospreys caught fish on at least 1 in every 4 dives, with success rates sometimes as high as 70 percent. The average time they spent hunting before making a catch was about 12 minutes.

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July 17th, 2016

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