With the alias of tiger-head eagle, it belongs to the Accipitridae family of Falconiformes order. Its scientific name is Haliaeetus pelagicus (Latin), or Kamchatkan Sea Eagle (English).
It is a large-size bird of prey with a full-length of about 100 centimeters. It has black and tan feathers with taupe longitudinal grain. Its forehead, shoulder, waist, rectrices, tail tectices and legs are all white. Its beak and feet are deep yellow.
Kamchatkan Sea Eagleinhabits in high trees near rivers and morass, mainly preying on fishes, as well as waterfowls, rodents and rotten bodies. It plaits nests in rock walls or great trees with deadwood, and spawns 2 white eggs per nest.
Kamchatkan Sea Eagleis mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, and Taiwan provinces. This species has distribution in Honghe Morass Natural Protection Area of Heilongjiang Province, but without breeding corroboration. In the rest areas, they are all passing migrants, occasionally hibernate in Taiwan Island.
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