Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae)
Steller's Sea-eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) - HBW 2, p. 123
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.
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An adult flying over the port, catching a Slaty-backed Gull and taking it to the coastal rocks. Locality Habomai Port, Nemuro Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 6 February 2010 2 years ago 44 sec 4.8 -
A nest with two chicks, showing different activities. Locality Talan Island, Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 June 2009 3 years ago 48 sec 4.8 -
An immature, and then an adult, flying and landing over the ice pack, with a good number of other Sea-eagles. Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 5 February 2010 2 years ago 49 sec 4.5 -
An adult perched on a rock and flying towards a colony of Black-legged Kittiwakes which, frightened, fly away and call simultane Locality Talan Island, Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 27 June 2009 3 years ago 40 sec 4.5 -
Landing on a pole with a fish and eating it Locality Notsuke Peninsula, Shibetsu District, Hokkaido, Japan
Volkert van der Willigen 17 January 2011 2 years ago 49 sec 4.3 -
An adult bird eating a fish discard on an ice pack, then flying away. Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 6 February 2010 2 years ago 24 sec 4.3
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An adult bird on a pole
Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan
Aleix Comas 14 January 2010 3 years ago 4.7 -
Dorsal view of an adult bird over the ice.
Locality Hokkaido, Japan (Monotypic species)
Pete Morris 1 February 2005 17 weeks ago 4.6 -
An adult flying carrying a piece of a fish discard.
Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (Monotypic species)
Jordi Sargatal 6 February 2010 10 weeks ago 4.3 -
A close-up of the head of an adult bird.
Locality Hokkaido, Japan (Monotypic species)
Pete Morris 1 February 2005 17 weeks ago 4.3 -
An individual in flight.
Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (Monotypic species)
Jordi Sargatal 6 February 2010 10 weeks ago 4.2 -
An aduly bird in flight.
Locality Hokkaido, Japan (Monotypic species)
Pete Morris 1 February 2005 17 weeks ago 4.1
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