Hawks and Eagles (Accipitridae) - HBW 2
White-tailed Sea-eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
French: Pygargue à queue blanche
German: Seeadler
Spanish: Pigargo Europeo
Other common names: White tailed Eagle
Taxonomy: Falco Albicilla Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Forms superspecies with H. leucocephalus. Birds from Greenland sometimes separated in race groenlandicus, on grounds of larger average size. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW Greenland; W Iceland; N & C Eurasia S to Greece and Turkey, S Caspian Sea, L Balkash and Manchuria; formerly to lower R Yangtze; has bred on Attu I (W Aleutian Is). Winters S to N Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, Pakistan, N India and SE China.
- Least Concern
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A juvenile walking with other species near a fish farm Fogdö, Västra Götaland County, Sweden (Monotypic species)
Pierre Boudinot 4 March 2006 3 years ago 38 sec 3.9 -
An adult on the ground Evros Delta, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece (Monotypic species)
Javier Elorriaga 5 March 2005 2 years ago 32 sec 3.4 -
A juvenile standing near a fish farm Fogdö, Västra Götaland County, Sweden (Monotypic species)
Pierre Boudinot 4 March 2006 3 years ago 37 sec 3.3 -
An adult on a rock, and an adult flying with some attacking gulls Varanger Fjord, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Christian Dortu 31 May 2005 4 years ago 24 sec 3.3 -
An immature with an adult Greater Spotted Eagle perched in a tree Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli Forest Reserve, Greece (Monotypic species)
Javier Elorriaga 15 March 2005 2 years ago 7 sec 3.2 -
A bird on rocks and flying away Varanger Fjord, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Christian Dortu 31 May 2005 4 years ago 24 sec 2.8
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An adult in flight over the sea Norway
Franck Renard 28 April 2006 1 year ago 4.5 -
Close-up of an adult bird. Madrid Zoo, Madrid, Spain (Monotypic species)
Pedro Ortega Pinil... 20 February 2009 1 year ago 4 -
An adult bird. Madrid Zoo, Madrid, Spain (Monotypic species)
Pedro Ortega Pinil... 20 February 2009 1 year ago 4 -
Two birds on a branch Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan
Aleix Comas 14 January 2010 7 weeks ago 3.5
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First birds giving call and fly, then loud calls Greifvogelpark, Buchs, St. Gallen Canton, Switzerland
Michael C 3 January 2010 10 weeks ago 4
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