Pandion (bird) (redirect from Pandionidae)
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...
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characteristics it is classified in its own taxonomic genus, Pandion, and family, Pandionidae. The osprey was described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus...
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Accipitriformes Accipitridae (eagles, harriers, hawks, kites, Old World vultures) Pandionidae (ospreys) (1 or 2 species) Cathartidae (Cathartid vultures and condors)...
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This list is based on the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds list, May 2002 update, with the doubtfuls omitted. It includes the birds...
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zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny in 1809, is the sole genus of the family Pandionidae; it is named for a mythic Greek figure known as Pandion. Some arrangements...
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secretarybird was sister to a clade containing the ospreys in the family Pandionidae and the kites, hawks and eagles in the family Accipitridae. The same...
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†Horusornithidae Horusornis Pandionidae Pandion Sagittariidae †Amanuensis †Amphiserpentarius †Pelargopappus Sagittarius Accipitridae...
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vultures Suborder Accipitres Family Sagittariidae: secretarybird Family Pandionidae: osprey Family Accipitridae: hawks, eagles, buzzards, harriers, kites...
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included in this group. The osprey is usually placed in a separate family (Pandionidae), as is the secretary bird (Sagittariidae), and the New World vultures...
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†Horusornithidae Horusornis Pandionidae Pandion Sagittariidae †Amanuensis †Amphiserpentarius †Pelargopappus Sagittarius Accipitridae...
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