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Pallas's Fish Eagle

Accipitridae

Photo: Tisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0 (May be cropped or resized)

Haliaeetus leucoryphus

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Range

Breeds in the east Palearctic from Kazakhstan, Russia and Central Asia through Mongolia and China to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan; winters in northern India and west to the Persian Gulf

Pallas's fish eagle is a large, brownish sea eagle with a light sandy-brown hood and a whitish face. The wings are darker brown and the back rufous, and the long, slender wings, particularly slender for a sea eagle, are rather dark brown beneath. The tail is black with a wide, distinctive white stripe. Juveniles are overall darker, cooler brown with no tail band but several pale areas on the wing, giving young birds underwings with a white band. Adult plumage is reached at about four years. (Wikipedia, general species account)

Also called Pallas's sea eagle or the band-tailed fish eagle, it breeds in the east Palearctic in Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, China, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan. It is partially migratory, with Central Asian birds wintering among the southern Asian birds in northern India and further west to the Persian Gulf. (Wikipedia, general species account)

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Where is the Pallas's Fish Eagle found?
Breeds in the east Palearctic from Kazakhstan, Russia and Central Asia through Mongolia and China to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan; winters in northern India and west to the Persian Gulf
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