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- noun Plural form of
osprey .
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Examples
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"Tracking the ospreys is the perfect way to celebrate the tenth successive breeding season at Bassenthwaite."
News round-up 2010
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The export of plumage from India is unlawful, but this fact does not prevent a very large feather trade being carried on, since it is not difficult to smuggle "ospreys" out of the country.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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No; the "ospreys" of the British feather market come from slaughtered egrets and herons, _killed in the breeding season_.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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• Holland Park Theatre W8, 0300 999 1000, operahollandpark.comThe London Wetland Centre is the best place to go bird-watching in the capital, from wetland birds and wildfowl to migrating species such as ospreys.
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However, bald eagles are now common, ospreys and peregrines even more so.
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Yesterday morning I walked down to the pond at the end of the street and saw three ospreys --- marsh hawks --- swooping across the water, shopping for breakfast.
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Gerald Herbert/Associated Press Wildlife rehabilitator Donna Gee handed one of three ospreys that were rescued months ago as chicks from rising floodwaters of the Atchafalaya and Mississippi rivers to be released back into the wild in Cow Island Lake, La., July 19.
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The sole survivor of three chicks hatched by a record-breaking pair of ospreys has taken its first tentative flight from its eyrie in Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland.
Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick 2011
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An area of open heath and oak woodland, it is haven for everything from warblers and woodpeckers to owls and ospreys, and deer roam freely through the heather.
Secret beaches of the south-west: Shipstal Beach< Dorset 2011
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However, bald eagles are now common, ospreys and peregrines even more so.
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