Pandion (bird)

This article is about the bird genus. For other uses, see Pandion (disambiguation).

Pandion is a genus of 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 living species, separated into subspecies and found worldwide near water, while some treatments recognize two living species, splitting off the eastern osprey (Pandion (haliaetus) cristatus) from Australia and southeast Asia.^[1]

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

Species

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Pandion haliaetus	Osprey	Cosmopolitan distribution

Extinct (fossil) 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.