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Osprey
Heb. ‘ozniyyah, an unclean bird according to the Mosaic law (Lev 11:13; Deut 14:12); the fish-eating eagle (Pandion haliaetus); one of the lesser eagles. But the Hebrew word may be taken to denote the short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus of Southern Europe), one of the most abundant of the eagle tribe found in Palestine.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
