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Breeding Ospreys

Breeding Ospreys

I spent a few hours watching this young female and male Osprey yesterday building their relationship with each other and building their nest together. They were building their nest on a man made tower especially built for them to nest. They are mostly located on or near our coastal rivers, inlets, coastlines and islands. Their breeding season in northern Australia is April-July and Southern parts of Australia July-Sept Both the female and the male frequently left the nest during that 2 hours of watching them. Sometimes they came back with sticks, sometimes they came back with a fish. There was...

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Talented Osprey

Talented Osprey

Known mostly as the Eastern Osprey, other names are Fish Hawk, Osprey. It is a large graceful fishing hawk 50-65cm with a wing span to 1.7m. They can by seen near coastlines, estuaries, inlets, islands and surrounding waters, coral atolls, lagoons, rock cliffs and stacks. They Breed April - July. The nest is large and made up of sticks, seaweed, rope etc high in trees or on pylons. In Queensland and I am sure this is done in the other states, there are many man made towers for the Ospreys erected near their habitats and close to their feeding grounds....

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