Friday, 2 July 2021

White-tailed Eagle?

From Jake Grives-Cook:

Good morning,  yesterday afternoon I was at Picton Point on the Cleddau estuary and I believe I saw a White-tailed eagle. It was being harrassed by gulls while flying high above the river and quickly climbed to a higher altitude and soared off.  I saw it with my naked eye so I did not get a close-up view but over the years I have often watched African fish eagles (Haliaeetus vocifer) in flight and my initial thought was that it was a Fish eagle possibly escaped from a bird of prey centre but then its huge size made me think it was a White-tailed Sea eagle (Haliaetus albicilla).