Endangered
Pallas’s Fish Eagle
Haliaeetus leucoryphus
Pallas's fish eagle, also known as Pallas's sea eagle or band-tailed fish eagle, is a large, brownish sea eagle.
Appearance
The Pallas's fish eagle has a light sandy-brown hood and a whitish face. The wings are darker brown and the back rufous. The long, slender wings (particularly slender for a sea eagle) are rather dark brown underneath.
This fairly large species measures 72 to 85 cm (28 to 33 in) in length with a wingspan of 180–215 cm (71–85 in). Females weigh 2.1 to 3.7 kg (4.6 to 8.2 lb), with this sample of nine averaging 3.2 kg (7.1 lb), and are slightly larger than males at 2.03 to 3.3 kg (4.5 to 7.3 lb), in ten that weighed an average of 2.6 kg (5.7 lb).
Published measurements include mass about 117.
Range and habitat
The Pallas's fish eagle occurs in Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, 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 also further west to the Persian Gulf.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Its diet consists primarily of large freshwater fish. Even so, Pallas's fish eagle seems to have a broadly opportunistic diet much like better known sea eagles.
Other prey reportedly can include mammals, among them leporids and rodents, frogs, reptiles, among them snakes and terrapins, insects (i.e. Wasp larvae) and carrion. Their prey in Bangladesh were reported to consist of mrigal carp, rohu, catla, ilish, Chitala chitala, Mystus cavasius, Ompok bimaculatus and Wallago attu. It breeds in the east Palearctic in Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, China, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan.
In crisis
It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The Pallas's fish eagle is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The global population is estimated at less than 2,500 individuals.
Besides direct persecution, humans contribute to the decline of this species through habitat degradation, pollution, and draining or overfishing lakes.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Pallas’s Fish Eagle is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Pallas’s Fish Eagle, Wikidata item Q271462. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
