TOLONG BANTU JAWAB BESOK DIKUMPULKANOspreys are superb fishers and indeed eat little else-fish make up some these birds can be. 99 percent of their (1) ............... Because of this (2) ............ found near ponds, rivers, lakes, and (3) .............. waterways around the world. Ospreys hunt by diving to the water's surface from some 30 to 100 feet up. They have gripping pads on their feet to help them (4) .............. fish from the water with their curved claws and carry them for great distances. In flight, ospreys will orient the fish headfirst to ease wind (5) ..... Ospreys are sometimes confused with bald (6) ................ but can be identified by their white under parts. Their white (7) ............... also have a distinctive black eye stripe that goes down the side of for food. their faces. Eagles and ospreys are frequent similar habitats and sometimes (8) ...... Eagles often force osprey to drop fish that they have caught and steal them in (9)......Human habitat is (10) ........ an aid to the osprey. The birds happily build large stick-and- sod nests on telephone poles, channel markers, and other such locations. (11).......nesting platforms are common in areas where (12) ............... are working to reestablish the birds. North American osprey populations became (13) ............... in the 1950s due to chemical pollutants such as DDT, which thinned their eggshells and hampered reproduction. Ospreys have rebounded significantly in recent (14)..... though they remain (15) .............. in some locales. Most ospreys are (16)......... ... birds that breed in the north and migrate south for the winter. They lay eggs (typically three), which both parents help to (17).......Osprey eggs don't hatch all at once, but are (18) .............. in time so that some siblings are older and more (19) .....when food is scarce these stronger birds mau take it all and leave their siblings to (20) .....​​