By Claire Mathieson, Bay Nature
Although ospreys can be found worldwide, until recently there had been no record of their using the San Francisco Bay for anything other than wintering grounds. This nesting season, however, dozens of young ospreys took their first dives through the bay air and caught their first fish in its waters.
Ospreys go south for the winter and spend the breeding season in higher latitudes. In the past, they would pass up the bay to nest farther north. “If you look at the range route for ospreys now it looks like ospreys come down the Pacific coast and the nesting and breeding range stops somewhere just north of San Francisco,” said Allen Fish of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory.
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