Editing Osprey (section)

===Literature===
* The Roman writer [[Pliny the Elder]] reported that parent ospreys made their young fly up to the sun as a test, and dispatched any that failed.<ref name="deVries76" />
* Another odd legend regarding this fish-eating bird of prey, derived from the writings of [[Albertus Magnus]] and recorded in [[Raphael Holinshed|Holinshed]]'s ''Chronicles'', was that it had one webbed foot and one taloned foot.<ref name="Cocker" /><ref name="Cooper92" />
* The osprey is mentioned in the famous Chinese folk poem "[[Guan ju|guan guan ju jiu]]" (關關雎鳩); "ju jiu" 雎鳩 refers to the osprey, and "guan guan" (關關) to its voice. In the poem, the osprey is considered to be an icon of fidelity and harmony between wife and husband, due to its highly monogamous habits. Some commentators have claimed that "ju jiu" in the poem is not the osprey but the [[mallard duck]], since the osprey cannot make the sound "guan guan".<ref name="vogel" /><ref name="jiang" />
* The Irish poet [[William Butler Yeats]] used a grey wandering osprey as a representation of sorrow in ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'' (1889).<ref name="deVries76" />
* There was a medieval belief that fish were so mesmerised by the osprey that they turned belly-up in surrender,<ref name="Cocker" /> and this is referenced by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] in Act 4 Scene 5 of ''[[Coriolanus (play)|Coriolanus]]'':

{{Poem quote|
I think he'll be to Rome
As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
By sovereignty of nature.
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