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Northern Sea-Eagles and Fish-Eagles
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Northern Sea-Eagles and Fish-Eagles

Haliaeetus

A sea eagle (also called erne or ern, mostly in reference to the white-tailed eagle) is any of the birds of prey in the genus Haliaeetus in the bird of prey family Accipitridae.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Bald Eagle

speciesHaliaeetus leucocephalus

White-tailed Eagle

speciesHaliaeetus albicilla

Steller's Sea-Eagle

speciesHaliaeetus pelagicus

Pallas's Fish-Eagle

speciesHaliaeetus leucoryphus

Haliaeetus leucocephalus × pelagicus

hybridHaliaeetus leucocephalus × pelagicus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 5303.