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white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)
Subject: white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)
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WB Sea Eagle Pounce.jpg
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white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)


White-bellied Sea Eagle diving on prey
Date 28 June 2009
Author Mdk572 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mdk572
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WB_Sea_Eagle_Pounce.jpg

The white-bellied sea eagle or white-breasted sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) is a large diurnal bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. A distinctive bird, the adult white-bellied sea eagle has a white head, breast, under-wing coverts and tail. Haliaeetus leucogaster is found from India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka in southern Asia, through all of coastal Southeast Asia and southern China, eastwards through New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, and Australia.

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Scientific Name: Haliaeetus leucogaster (Gmelin, 1788)
Common Names: White-bellied Sea-eagle, White-bellied Fish-Eagle, White-breasted Sea Eagle
French: Pygargue blagre; German: Weißbauch-Seeadler; Spanish: Pigargo oriental
Taxonomy: Falco leucogaster J. F. Gmelin, 1788, no locality = Java.

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