Osprey Slow-Motion Dive

Osprey Slow-Motion Dive

Location:  Sebasticook River, Maine, USA
Species:  Osprey
Recorded:  2025-10-06

Each spring, millions of alewives surge up Maine’s Sebasticook River, triggering a brief feeding bonanza. Ospreys hover, then plunge completely underwater—a fishing style no other raptor matches—while Bald Eagles compete for the same prey. Filmed for the Cornell Lab’s Wild Birds Revealed

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