White-tailed Eagle
White-tailed Eagle: Fourth largest eagle in the world, has a dark brown body, brown and white streaked head, neck, and breast with a white tail. The bill, legs, and feet are yellow and eyes are medium brown. Heavy flight with strong, deep, steady wing beats alternating with glides. Soars on thermals.
● Song:
"krick-krick-krick-krick", "grah-grah-grah"
● Foraging & Feeding:
White-tailed Eagle: Eats fish, young gulls, ducks, guillemots, alcids, seals, rabbits, rodents, and carrion. Will steal food from gulls.
● Breeding & nesting:
White-tailed Eagle: Builds a nest of sticks, grass, seaweed and bones of prey high in a tree or on a rocky ledge. One to three dull white eggs incubated by female 35 to 45 days. Young are fed by both sexes. One brood per year.
● Similar species:
White-tailed Eagle: Bald Eagle has white undertail coverts and white head. Steller's Sea-Eagle is larger with yellow-orange bill.
Flight Pattern
Strong, deep, steady wing beats, sometimes alternates with glides.