Vietnam Adventure Tours & Travel, Trekking, Cycling, Family Tours
Pandionidae
-
Pandion
- Order: Accipitriformes
- Family: Pandionidae
Pandion is a genus of fish-eating bird of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae.
1/ Osprey (Ó cá, Pandion haliaetus), also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk
-
Pandionidae
The family Pandionidae has a single member Pandion heliaetus; known as Osprey or Fish-Hawk. The family belongs to the order Accipitriformes.
Accipitriformes from Latin accipiter/accipitri- "hawk", and Neo-Latin -formes "having the form of".
The family name Pandionidae derives from Pandíōn, the mythical Greek king of Athens and grandfather of Theseus, Pandion II.