(n.) The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.
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(n.) Alt. of Ospray
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(1) The 2012 deployment of MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft on the island , and the relocation of a military base have added to popular resentment towards Tokyo.
(2) Robert Davies, another original investor, also a financial backer of Swansea’s Ospreys rugby union region which shares the Liberty Stadium, also has a 10.5% stake.
(3) The governor of Okinawa prefecture, Hirokazu Nakaima, said he could not understand why the Ospreys had arrived before local safety concerns had been addressed.
(4) A slightly elevated concentration of chromium (1.7 ppm) or arsenic (3.2 ppm) was found in the livers of individual ospreys.
(5) On 2 October, the navy said a marine who ejected from an MV-22 Osprey aircraft over the Persian Gulf was presumed lost at sea.
(6) A US Marine has died and 21 people have been taken to hospital after their Osprey aircraft made a hard landing in Hawaii on Sunday.
(7) The incident will do little to allay fears that the Osprey is accident-prone.
(8) An osprey nested recently on Cocos, but her two chicks were later found dead in their nest after their mother fed them with a toxic puffer fish.
(9) Carcasses of immature ospreys from the Chesapeake Bay had significantly lower concentrations of DDE, DDD + DDT, cis-chlordane, and PCB's than carcasses of adults from the same area.
(10) But he added: "We will work hard to share across the country the burden borne by Okinawa by taking steps towards transferring Osprey training to [Japan's] main island," he told reporters.
(11) We can never live safely here.” Japan’s defence minister, Tomomi Inada, called for all Osprey flights to be suspended until safety assurances could be given.
(12) Yellowstone’s latest surveys also show that a five-year effort to conserve aerial predators such as hawks and eagles has been successful, with numbers of peregrines remaining stable and the nesting success of bald eagles and ospreys “above the long-term averages for both species during the last several years”.
(13) Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the internet would have - entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper on the e-mail screen, there's a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry (from the osprey-tracking site to tours round old nuclear silos and the extraordinary aerial trip down the California coastline and a thousand others), not to mention the weirdest porn.
(14) Japan’s ground self-defence forces plan to start flying 17 Ospreys from April 2019, according to local media.
(15) You might swim past highland cows taking time out on mini beaches by the river, the resident osprey out for a fishing trip or famous resident octogenarian explorers and their canoeing friends taking their daily dip.
(16) Okinawa remains a major offensive US military base, over the bitter objections of its inhabitants – who, right now, are less than enthusiastic about the dispatch of accident-prone V-22 Osprey helicopters to the Fukenma military base, located at the heart of a heavily-populated urban center.
(17) His book, Challenge of Battle: The Real Story of the British Army in 1914, to be published by Osprey in February, is an analysis of the BEF in 1914.
(18) When asked if that criticism applied to Senator John McCain, who deemed the raid a failure after receiving a classified briefing on the operation, Spicer repeated: “Anyone who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology and a disservice to the life of Chief Ryan Owens.” Eight-year-old American girl 'killed in Yemen raid approved by Trump' Read more The night raid on a village in the central Yakla region appears to have gone wrong from the start, with the crash landing of an Osprey aircraft.
(19) Several ospreys had elevated concentrations of mercury in their livers; two ospreys had more than 20 ppm which may have contributed to their deaths.
(20) The analyses performed on 14 bald eagle carcasses and livers, 3 bald eagle eggs, and 14 osprey eggs show measurable levels which indicate that Kepone accumulates in the tissues of fish-eating birds.