Osprey at Batemans Bay, NSW
Identification history
| Pandion haliaetus | 24 Aug 2018 | CharlesDove | ||
| Pandion haliaetus | 27 May 2018 | natureguy | ||
| Unidentified | 15 Oct 2017 | roymcd |
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User's notes
Rough location of nest. If this is a sensitive site I'm happy for a moderator to take the sighting off or to conceal it, as is done on Canberra Nature Map. The Captain of our tour cruise mentioned this is an Osprey nest but my little camera couldn't manage a definitive photo. The adult bird's head is just peaking above the nest. Maybe a Sea-eagle? Kind regards, Roy.
8 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
16 Mar 2018
Hi Roy, From what little I can see of the top of the bird's head it looks more like a sea-eagle to me, though ospreys have the top of the head white too. Also it's a damn big nest, also suggesting sea-eagle. But I'm not confident enough to confirm it one way or the other.
JackieMiles
wrote:
28 May 2018
So, natureguy, what's your reasoning on why it is an osprey and not a sea-eagle? I'm still more inclined to think it is the latter.
natureguy
wrote:
30 May 2018
It looks like it has a dark stripe on the head suggesting osprey rather than sea-eagle.
JackieMiles
wrote:
30 May 2018
I downloaded and zoomed in on the 2nd image, and what I'm seeing is a pure white crown with a dark eye and the base of a massive grey bill, exactly like a sea-eagle, and not like an osprey. I'm now convinced enough to confirm it as a sea-eagle.
CharlesDove
wrote:
23 Aug 2018
Sorry it is the Ospreys in the nest this site was recorded the last few years, They have had 1 fledgling from this is site, I have been assisting Chris Grounds from Shoalhaven Birdlife who is doing the monitoring on the Osprey throughout the Shoalhaven
JackieMiles
wrote:
24 Aug 2018
OK, that's the sort of solid info we need. I'm not a moderator for birds on ALBC any more, so I can suggest the change but someone else will have to confirm it.
JackieMiles
wrote:
24 Aug 2018
Actually, it doesn't look like I can even suggest the change, so over to you local guys to fix this one up.
Location information
- Places Batemans Bay, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 12 Oct 2017 02:28 PM Recorded on
- roymcd Recorded by
Species information
- Pandion haliaetus Scientific name
- Osprey Common name
- Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-Invasive
- 186 images trained Machine learning
