Pandion haliaetus (Osprey)

IUCN Status: Least Concern.

Taxonomy is hard. According to some there are actually four species/sub species of Osprey (see wikipedia for details). However the study that made this differential (base on genetics) was not adequately peer reviewed (checked by other scientists) and so is not acknowledged (see the ICUN link).

The boundaries of what is a "species" are not hard and fast. Nature refuses to be easily categorised and labelled. It's fluid, flexible and changing; as is our understanding of it. That makes it both messy and intriguing: but increasingly alien to people living in increasingly sterile, clean, prescribed, modern lives.