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the only raptor that dives feet-first into water and surfaces with dinner skewered
means A large fish-eating bird of prey, brown above and white below, found near water worldwide, that catches fish by plunging talons-first into the surface.
from From Old French ospreit, traced back through Vulgar Latin to Latin avis praedae, 'bird of prey' — though it likely got tangled along the way with ossifraga, 'bone-breaker,' a name originally meant for a different raptor. So the modern bird carries a borrowed, slightly muddled label, the kind of mix-up that happens when one impressive predator gets mistaken for another.
- grip lock
- Reversible outer toe makes a two-and-two death grip
- waterproof
- Dense oily feathers shed water after the plunge
- globe trotter
- Found on every continent except Antarctica
- aerodynamic
- Carries fish head-first to cut wind drag
- comeback kid
- Rebounded hard after DDT nearly wiped them out