White-bellied Sea Eagle

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Pegarah Road, E King Island, Tas IMG_2009 20211217 - adult

Notes: Large. White head, breast, underwing coverts & tail. Black & white underwing pattern;
short wedge-shaped tail. Unfeathered pale tarsi. Juvenile: dark line through eye; brown,
mottled buff, w. buff head, face & throat. Soars w. wings held in strong V-shape. Generalist
carnivore, swooping in shallow dive on prey.

Range from Morcombe & Stewart^©

Cattana Wetlands, Cairns, FN Qld IMG_1120 20190422

Green Island, Cairns, FN Qld IMG_3518 20191221 - being chased off by White-breasted Woodswallow

Karumba Point, NW Qld IMG_4798 20170820

Liverpool River, Arnhem Land, N NT MVI_0023 20160804 - eating a bat

Roebuck Bay, Broome, NW WA IMG_3317 20180916 - adult.

Lake Martha Lavina, N King Island, Tas IMG_2348 20211218 - immature: whitish body, heavily mottled breastband,
whitish head. CLICK for one at Bales Bay, Kangaroo Isl, SE SA 20241030.

Morris Road, Giru, NE Qld IMG_9992 20220226 - juvenile: mottled brown body, white panels in under-wing primaries;
wings broader than adult. CLICK for another with crab, foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld 20230818.

Richard's Point, Roebuck Bay, Broome, NW WA MVI_2039 20180908 - eating a fish

Karumba Point, NW Qld IMG_5576 20200620 - being harrassed by a Whistling Kite

Liverpool River, Arnhem Land, N NT MVI_0007 20160804 - eating a bat