Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae) - HBW 2
Steller's Sea-eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus)
French: Pygargue empereur
German: Riesenseeadler
Spanish: Pigargo Gigante
Other common names: White shouldered Sea eagle
Taxonomy: Aquila pelagica Pallas, 1811, islands on sea of Okhotsk.
Possible race niger of Korea is probably only rare morph; not known in wild or captivity for five decades. Monotypic.
Distribution: Coastal regions along W Bering Sea, S of Paul's Bay (Koryakland), and Sea of Okhotsk; winters S to Ussuriland, Japan and Korea.
- Vulnerable
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A nest with two chicks, showing different activities. Talan Island, Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Russia (Eastern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 June 2009 26 weeks ago 48 sec 4.7 -
An adult perched on a rock and flying towards a colony of Black-legged Kittiwakes which, frightened, fly away and call simultane Talan Island, Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Russia (Eastern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 June 2009 26 weeks ago 40 sec 4.4 -
An adult in flight. Talan Island, Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Russia (Eastern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 June 2009 26 weeks ago 51 sec 4.3 -
A nest with two chicks, one exercizing, the other one resting. Talan Island, Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Russia (Eastern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 June 2009 26 weeks ago 42 sec 4 -
An adult in flight seen in slow motion (20%). Talan Island, Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Russia (Eastern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 June 2009 26 weeks ago 35 sec 3.8 -
Two adults on the coast, both flying away and perching in the same tree. Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Russia (Eastern) (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 28 June 2009 26 weeks ago 1 min 3 sec 3.5
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An adult bird on a pole Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan
Aleix Comas 14 January 2010 8 weeks ago 4.3 -
Adult sunbathing in a bird park in Switzerland Switzerland
Diatryma 30 June 2009 13 weeks ago 4 -
Closeup Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
Jonathan Beilby 1 January 2008 15 weeks ago 4 -
A bird in flight coming from the sea Nemuro Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan
Aleix Comas 13 January 2010 8 weeks ago 3.7 -
Sun-bathing in a bird park in Switzerland Switzerland
Diatryma 30 June 2009 13 weeks ago 3.5 -
Close-up of an adult in a bird park in Switzerland Switzerland
Diatryma 30 June 2009 13 weeks ago 3.5
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