Osprey
Pandion haliaetus
Osprey resting after a sortie across the Bhadra Reservoir
Photographed at: River Tern Lodge, Chickmagaluru, Karnataka on 2015-12-24Taxonomists are a little confused about the placement of this species. I'm going here with one of the schemes that places Ospreys as the only member of the Pandionidae family. Ospreys are incredibly successful fish-eating raptors colonizing all the continents, save Antarctica.
Family:
Pandionidae