Steller\'s Sea Eagle
Haliaeetus pelagicus

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\"Steller\'s Sea Eagle,\" Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Steller\'s sea eagle breeds on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the coastal area around the Sea of Okhotsk, the lower reaches of the Amur River and on northern Sakhalin and the Shantar Islands, Russia. The majority of birds winter farther south, in the southern Kuril Islands, Russia and Hokkaidô, Japan. That being said, the Steller\'s Sea-eagle is less vagrant than the white-tailed eagle, usually lacking the long-range dispersal common in juveniles of that species. Vagrant eagles have been found in North America, at locations including the Pribilof Islands and Kodiak Island, inland to as far as Peking in China and Yakutsk in Russia\'s Sakha Republic and south to as far as Taiwan but these are considered to be individual eagles that have strayed far from the species\' typical range.
Hokkaido, Japan
 
02/12/2012