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Grey-headed Fish Eagle
Sign in to saveAlso known as Haliaeetus ichthyaetus, Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus
species of bird
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Vinony's link graph records 76 inbound references to Grey-headed Fish Eagle, and connects out to Animalia, bird and Chordata.
It sits within the topics Birds described in 1821, Birds of South Asia and Birds of Southeast Asia.
Vinony links it to 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Near Threatenedvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- Grey-headed Fish Eagle, Kerala.jpg
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- taxon name
- Haliaeetus ichthyaetus
- taxon common name
- pigargo-de-cabeça-cinzenta
- Commons category
- Haliaeetus ichthyaetus
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Encyclopedic overview
The grey-headed fish eagle (Icthyophaga ichthyaetus) is a fish-eating bird of prey from Southeast Asia. It is a large stocky raptor with adults having dark brown upper body, grey head and lighter underbelly and white legs. Juveniles are paler with darker streaking. It is often confused with the lesser fish eagle (Icthyophaga humilis) and the Pallas's fish eagle. The lesser fish eagle is similar in plumage but smaller and the Pallas's fish eagle shares the same habitat and feeding behaviour but is larger with longer wings and darker underparts. Is often called tank eagle in Sri Lanka due to its fondness for irrigation tanks.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grey-headed Fish Eagle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.