Scientific Name: Pandion haliaetus
Residency: Spends summers in northeast part of Arizona, and winters in southwestern corner.
Diet: Eats mostly fish.
Predators: Bald Eagles prey upon nestlings. Great-horned Owls take mostly nestlings, but are known to kill adults. Also humans (pesticide use).
Nesting: Made of sticks lined with moss and grass placed in a tree, cliff or human structure 5-200 ft. high. Eggs: 2-4 per brood, whitish with reddish-brown blotches, 1 brood per year.
Nesting Records:
Notes: When breeding, they react to predators in two ways; by diving at the intruder and by making alarm calls. When feeding, this bird hovers over water, dives down, and catches prey in its talons. Fish are carried head first. Male brings female all of her food during breeding.
Photo: to be added soon.
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