Steller's Eagle discussing whose turn to eat next.
Our Beautiful World: The Birds of Kamchatka
The Steller's sea eagle is one of the leaders in Russian ornitofauna
with the stretch of wings
of up to 2,5 meters, and the sizes of his nests are probably incompatible.
In the Kronotsky Zapovednik, an old nest of many years was found
the height of which reached nearly
two meters and the diameter was 3 meters!
Steller's Eagle discussing whose turn to eat next.
Courtesy:
http://www.kamchatkapeninsula.com/
An eagle usually lays two eggs, but only one of the two fledglings
grows up to flap his wings
in the skies. The Steller's sea eagle is very cautious and sensitive
to his "privacy".
Actually Kamchatka is the only place of their residence. The Steller's
sea eagle's
population (there are over 4,000 birds with about a 1,000 nesting
pairs in the peninsula) is
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