Pandion (bird)

Pandion is a genus of birds of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae. Most taxonomic treatments have regarded this genus as describing a single extant species, separated to subspecies or races, while some treatments recognize two extant species.

Pandion
Western osprey, Pandion haliaetus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Pandionidae
Sclater & Salvin, 1873
Genus: Pandion
Savigny, 1809
Global range of Pandion

The population found at the coastline and islands of Australia and southeast Asia, and the Indonesian archipelago have also been described as Pandion haliaetus cristatus.[1]

Extant species:

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Pandion haliaetusWestern ospreyCosmopolitan distribution
Pandion cristatusEastern ospreyWestern Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania

Extinct species:

  • Pandion homalopteron Warter 1976
  • Pandion lovensis Becker 1985

References

  1. Reader's digest complete book of Australian birds (2nd rev. 1st ed.). Reader's Digest Services. 1982. p. 114. ISBN 0909486638.
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