Friday, June 6, 2014

WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE

Photographed at Royal National Park, Sydney
5.  WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE     Haliaeetus leucogaster

Australia (5)

Also known as the White-breasted Sea-eagle. It is 70-90cms with a wing span of about 2 metres. Generally the female is the larger bird. Found around lakes, ocean, river and large bodies of water. Distributed right around the coast of Australia for a distance inland; also found in India, SE Asia, PNG and Solomon Islands.

Photographed at King Billy's Landing on Cape York.
Photographed at Forbes, June 2014

















Juvenile, photographed Lincoln National Park, South Australia March 2015
















Darwin, January 2024


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