How Ospreys live

Ospreys have a clear pattern to their lives. Because we’ve studied and tracked them, we know roughly what they’ll be doing from the moment they’re born.

  1. Egg
  2. Chick
  3. Juvenile
  4. Adult

As a chick

After about five weeks or so of incubation, the eggs hatch several days apart.

The young chick stays in the nest for its first seven or eight weeks. The mother stays close by, tearing the fish the male Osprey brings into small pieces, which she feeds to her young.

After about two weeks, the chicks can move around the nest. At approximately one month old they’re very active, preening and exercising their wings. Gradually they flap their wings more and more, until they’re able to lift a little off the nest and then take their hesitant first flight.

What do Ospreys eat?

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