"Taima" flies out of a tunnel and onto the field ahead of the Seattle Seahawks' mascot "Blitz," before a 2013 NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals in Seattle. (AP file photo: Elaine Thompson)

With all the Super Bowl hype of late, plus the regional enthusiasm for Seattle's football team, perhaps you've wondered, "What exactly is a seahawk?" There is no easy answer other than there is no bird that goes by that name. If you consult the all-knowing Internet, you'll find most people who have weighed in on the matter assume Seattle's mascot is actually an osprey - a bird of prey that lives near the water and hunts fish. Wikipedia lists several aliases for osprey, including "fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk or fish hawk." I asked three raptor experts to offer their opinion. They all said a seahawk is likely either an osprey or an eagle. Joel Sauder, the non-game biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game at Lewiston, agreed osprey is as good a guess as anything. "That would be the most likely interpretation of a seahawk," he said/Eric Barker, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: I'd like to think a Seahawk is an osprey, which are present here in the Inland Northwest. Wouldn't you?