Osprey, sea hawk, fish hawk or river hawk, Pandion haliaetus. Der Beinbrecher, orfraye, grand aigle de mer, sea eagle, Aquila ossifraga. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by François-Nicolas Martinet from Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1772.

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