Haliaeetus pelagicus (Rausu, Japan)🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Steller’s Sea Eagle

Haliaeetus pelagicus (Pallas, 1811)

Steller's sea eagle, also known as the Pacific sea eagle or white-shouldered eagle, is a very large diurnal bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. It was described first by Peter Simon Pallas in 1811. No subspecies are recognized. A sturdy eagle, it has dark brown plumage with white wings and tail, a yellow beak, and yellow talons. Typically, it is the heaviest eagle in the world, at about 5 to 10 kg, but in some other standard measurements, may be smaller than the harpy eagle and the Philippine eagle. Steller's sea eagle females are bigger than males, as in other raptors.

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Also called
Steller's Sea Eagle, Steller's Sea-eagle, Steller's Sea-Eagle
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
7.76 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Steller’s Sea Eagle

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
7.76 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male5.45 kgWikidataQ269896
  • Female7.9 kgWikidataQ269896
Tail length
0.33 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.6 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.1 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
7.8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Steller’s Sea Eagle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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In other languages
pigarg de Steller (ca), orel východní (cs), Stellers havørn (da), Riesenseeadler (de), pigargo gigante (es), kuningasmerikotka (fi) … and 26 more languages
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