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The white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), sometimes known as the 'sea eagle', [4] is a large bird of prey, widely distributed across temperate Eurasia.Like all eagles, it is a member of the family Accipitridae (or accipitrids) which also includes other diurnal raptors such as hawks, kites, and harriers.
These included a claimed white-tailed eagle, which broke into a chicken-run in a garden and stole a chicken, three little crakes, three Eurasian scops owls, the only late December record of tawny pipit, three black-eared wheatears, a record of two White's thrushes together in April, a spring lanceolated warbler, two moustached warblers and a ...
Savigny's binomial name is now regarded as a junior synonym of Falco albicilla (the white-tailed eagle) that had been described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. [1] [2] The genus name is from Latin haliaetus or haliaetos meaning "sea-eagle" or "osprey". [3] This genus includes the following four species: [4]
Status Mute swan: Cygnus olor: Fairly common resident; uncommon to fairly common breeding Bewick's swan: Cygnus columbianus: Uncommon in winter and on passage Whooper swan: Cygnus cygnus: Scarce in winter and on passage Bean goose: Anser fabalis: Rare in winter, LROS Pink-footed goose: Anser brachyrhynchus: Scarce in winter and uncommon on ...
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Roy Henry Dennis (born 1940) is a British conservationist.. Dennis grew up in the New Forest in the 1940s. After school he spent time at bird observatories on the islands of Lundy and Fair Isle where he met and worked with ornithologist George Waterston, who attempted to reintroduce the white-tailed eagle to Britain in the 1960s.
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