If there are no nesting sites available, young Ospreys may be forced to delay breeding.

Ospreys are not the only creatures to be found at Loch Garten.

A famous pair of Ospreys are present in the summer months, and they often attract large crowds to see them.

The Ospreys are the most successful team in the history of the Celtic League or Pro 12 tournament, having won the competition four times.

The university is currently a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference, and its NCAA Division I athletic teams are known as the North Florida Ospreys.

The four surviving regional clubs are Cardiff Blues, Scarlets, Ospreys and Newport Gwent Dragons.

They are feeder club to the Ospreys regional team.

Ospreys are present at St Mary's Loch and along the River Tweed.

The club owns 50 % of the Ospreys regional team and they are a feeder club to the Ospreys.

Swansea Rugby Football Club Ltd, alongside Neath RFC are co-owners of the Ospreys.

As of season 2008 / 2009, 11 Ospreys are allocated to Swansea RFC ; Leigh Bevan, Tommy Bowe, Gavin Henson, Dan Biggar, Ryan Jones, Ben Lewis, Jonathan Thomas, Michael Collins, Alun Wyn Jones, Huw Bennett, Paul James.

Ospreys fly to their summer home in Loch Garten and Red Deer are commonly seen.

They are feeder club to the Ospreys regional team.

Birds that can be seen include Ospreys, Red-tailed Black Cockatoos, Great Bowerbirds, White-gaped Honeyeaters and Red-winged Parrots.

Many seabirds can be seen including White-bellied Sea Eagles and Ospreys as well as various albatrosses and petrels.

Bald Eagles can also be seen attacking smaller raptors, such as Ospreys, to steal fish away from them.

Ospreys have vision that is well adapted to detecting underwater objects from the air.

Although he later retired to Long Dream Manor, his wife's family home in the countryside, he continued to solve crimes well into the 1980s, his last appearance being in Appleby and the Ospreys in 1986, 50 years after his fictional debut.

It is the new stadium of Swansea City ( replacing 93-year-old Vetch Field ), as well as the Ospreys rugby union team.

The team began the 2007 / 2008 season well with a young side beating an Ospreys side including All Blacks leg-end Justin Marshall 17 – 16 however following their opening day win the team went on a terrible run of form losing their next 3 games before David Humphreys inspired the team to a comeback draw against a star studded Leinster side at Ravenhill, suggesting that the return of their World Cup stars could lead Ulster back up the table.

In the game, Xenia Onatopp works for Dr. No and he seems to possess a considerable army of well-equipped henchmen, as well as numerous tanks and helicopter gunships that resemble V-22 Ospreys.

Since the change to regional rugby Several players have played for Swansea RFC, as well Ospreys and Wales including Alun Wyn Jones, Ryan Jones, Gavin Henson and Dan Biggar.

Birds include cardinals, barred owls, Carolina chickadees, Red-tailed Hawks, Ospreys, Brown Pelicans, Quail, Sea gulls, Bald Eagles, and Wild Turkeys.

* Ospreys, a single species found worldwide that specializes in catching fish, and builds large stick nests.

A pair of Ospreys have nested on the reserve since 2006.

Ospreys have been known to exhibit great joint flexibility.

Generally, Ospreys reach sexual maturity and begin breeding around the age of three to four, though in some regions with high Osprey densities, such as Chesapeake Bay in the U. S., they may not start breeding until five to seven years old, and there may be a shortage of suitable tall structures.

Ospreys usually mate for life.

) have been recorded in wild Ospreys.

Some Ospreys from Florida migrate to South America.

Australasian Ospreys tend not to migrate.

Studies of Swedish Ospreys showed that females tend to migrate to Africa earlier than the males.

The Roman writer Pliny the Elder reported that parent Ospreys made their young fly up to the sun as a test, and dispatch any that failed.

( Examples include the Ospreys, a Rugby Union team ; the Missoula Osprey, a minor league baseball team ; the Seattle Seahawks, an American football team ; and the North Florida Ospreys ) or as a mascot ( examples include the Springs School Ospreys in Springs, New York ; Geraldton skiing team in Australia ; the University of North Florida ; Salve Regina University ; Wagner College ; the University of North Carolina at Wilmington ; Richard Stockton College ; and Wells International School in Bangkok, Thailand.

* Ospreys on their southward migration fish.

The five professional sides that replaced the traditional club sides in major competitions in 2003 were replaced in 2004 by the four regions: Scarlets ; Cardiff Blues ; Newport Gwent Dragons ; and the Ospreys.

Ospreys have been observed harassing divers, more likely out of kleptoparasitism than predation.

Many birds live largely as scavengers, regularly pirating food from otters and other birds including cormorants, gulls, Ospreys and various other raptors.

In Dakar, birds have been observed mobbing passing Ospreys and Snake Eagles but avoiding Black Kites.

By comparison, Stone Harbor bird sanctuary's allies seem less formidable, for aside from the Audubon Society, they are mostly the snowy, common and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little blue and black-crowned herons who nest and feed there.

Traditionally, the order Ciconiiformes has included a variety of large, long-legged wading birds with large bills: storks, herons, egrets, ibises, spoonbills, and several others.

******** Order Ciconiiformes-storks, herons, egrets, spoonbills, hamerkops

When first described by the naturalist George Perry in 1810, the Brolga was misclassified as Ardea, the genus that includes the herons and egrets.

Oysters and blue crabs are common in the shallow waters, as are a variety of wading birds including egrets and herons.

Tangier marshes are home to many birds, including pelicans, blue herons, rails, egrets, several varieties of ducks and geese, and osprey.

Many egrets are members of the genera Egretta or Ardea which also contain other species named as herons rather than egrets.

There Huxley found egrets, herons and bitterns.

There is a wildlife preserve where great egrets, sandhill cranes, and great blue herons are known to nest.

The Okefenokee Swamp is home to many wading birds, such as herons, egrets, ibises, cranes, and bitterns, though populations fluctuate with water levels.

The current International Ornithological Committee classification has pelicans grouped with the Shoebill ( Balaenicipitidae ), Hamerkop ( Scopidae ), ibises and spoonbills ( Threskiornithidae ) and herons, egrets and bitterns ( Ardeidae ).

They also regularly share time among other avian creatures, gaining additional safety through numbers: storks, spoonbills, egrets, herons and ducks are all common companions during feedings and flights.

Ibis commonly nest near other waterbirds such as egrets, herons, spoonbills or cormorants.

The herons are long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 64 recognised species ( some are called " egrets " or " bitterns " instead of " heron ").

However, egrets are not a biologically distinct group from the herons, and tend to be named differently because they are mainly white and / or have decorative plumes.

Although egrets have the same build as the larger herons, they tend to be smaller.

The Great Egret — unlike the typical egrets — does not belong to the genus Egretta but together with the great herons is today placed in Ardea.

They are relatively stocky with shorter bills, legs, and necks than their more familiar cousins, the egrets and " day " herons.

Breeding is normally in single species colonies or in small single species groups amidst mixed-species colonies of other waterbirds such as herons, egrets and cormorants.

Common sights include pelicans, herons, egrets, and Anhingas, as well as the more common birds like terns, sandpipers, and seagulls.

), cardinals ( Cardinalis cardinalis ), unidentified passerines, small ducks, juvenile anhingas ( Anhinga anhinga ), common egrets ( Ardea alba ), egrets, glossy ibises and their eggs ( Plegadis falcinellus ), tricolor herons ( Egretta tricolor ), herons and their eggs, pied-billed grebes ( Podilymbus podiceps ), short-tailed shrews ( Blarina brevicauda ), least shrews ( Cryptotis parva ), southeastern shrews ( Sorex longirostris ), eastern moles ( Scalopus aquaticus ), muskrats ( Ondatra zibethicus ), rice rats ( Oryzomys palustris ), hispid pocket mice ( Perognathus hispidus ), black rats ( Rattus rattus ), squirrels ( Sciurus spp.