Editing Osprey (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
[[File:Osprey at Shadow Mountain Lake, CO 8-27-12 (8054292660).jpg|thumb|253x253px|American osprey pursued by a [[bald eagle]] attempting to steal a fish it caught; in [[Colorado]]]]
{{See also|Ospreys in Britain}}
The osprey is the second most widely distributed raptor species, after the [[peregrine falcon]], and is one of only six land-birds with a worldwide distribution.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Monti |first1=Flavio |last2=Duriez |first2=Olivier |last3=Arnal |first3=Véronique |last4=Dominici |first4=Jean-Marie |last5=Sforzi |first5=Andrea |last6=Fusani |first6=Leonida |last7=Grémillet |first7=David |last8=Montgelard |first8=Claudine |title=Being cosmopolitan: evolutionary history and phylogeography of a specialized raptor, the Osprey ''Pandion haliaetus'' |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |date=2015 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=255 |doi=10.1186/s12862-015-0535-6 |pmid=26577665 |pmc=4650845 |bibcode=2015BMCEE..15..255M |doi-access=free}}</ref> It is found in temperate and tropical regions of all continents, except [[Antarctica]]. In North America it breeds from [[Alaska]] and [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] south to the [[Gulf Coast]] and [[Florida]], wintering further south from the southern United States through to Argentina.<ref name="Bull87" /> It is found in summer throughout Europe north into Ireland, Scandinavia, Finland and Great Britain though not Iceland, and winters in [[North Africa]].<ref name="Hume2002" /> In Australia it is mainly [[sedentism|sedentary]] and found patchily around the coastline, though it is a non-breeding visitor to eastern [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] and [[Tasmania]].<ref name="Simpsday" />

There is a {{cvt|1000|km}} gap, corresponding with the coast of the [[Nullarbor Plain]], between its westernmost breeding site in [[South Australia]] and the nearest breeding sites to the west in [[Western Australia]].<ref name="Dennis2007a" /> In the islands of the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] it is found in the [[Bismarck Islands]], [[Solomon Islands]] and [[New Caledonia]], and [[fossil]] remains of adults and juveniles have been found in [[Tonga]], where it probably was wiped out by arriving humans.<ref name="Steadman2006" /> It is possible it may once have ranged across [[Vanuatu]] and [[Fiji]] as well. It is an uncommon to fairly common winter visitor to all parts of South Asia,<ref name="Rasmussen2005" /> and [[Southeast Asia]] from [[Myanmar]] through to [[Indochina]] and southern China, [[Indonesia]], Malaysia, and the Philippines.<ref name="Strange2000" />