Eagles
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Eagles
Eagles are large, powerfully built birds of prey, with heavy heads and beaks. They have relatively longer and more evenly broad wings, and more direct, fast flight. Most eagles are larger than any other raptors apart from some vultures. Because of their size and power, many eagle species are ranked at the top of the food chain as apex predators in the avian world.
Featured here are the Steller’s Sea Eagle and the White-tailed Eagle found on the drift ice off the coast of Rausu, Hokkaido in the sea of Okhotsk.
Photographed: Feb 27, 2020 | Published: March 13, 2020.
The Steller’s Sea Eagle is a large diurnal bird of prey found in coastal northeastern Asia and mainly preys on fish and water birds. Photo taken at Sea of Okhotsk, Rausu, Hokkaido (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The White-tailed Eagle is a large species of sea eagles found widely distributed across the temperate Eurasia. Photographed on the drift ice near Rausu in Hokkaido, Japan (Siddhartha Mukherjee)