ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
THE KITES, BUZZARDS, EAGLES, HAWKS, AND ALLIES
Steller's Sea Eagle
(Thalassoaetus pelagicus), which occurs in Kamchatka in summer and Japan in winter, is another giant species which is referred by some to the preceding genus, and by others placed in a genus by itself, differing, among other characters, in having a wedge-shaped tail of fourteen instead of twelve feathers and an enormous bill.
The plumage of the adult is brownish throughout, with the wing-coverts, rump, tail, and tail-coverts pure white, while the young are nearly brown throughout, only the tail being white.
The full-grown bird is about forty-one inches long.
The Korean Sea Eagle (T. branicki), a native mainly of Korea, is also a very large bird. It is a uniform slaty black, without white on any part of the body, and in correspondence with its gigantic size has a very loud, penetrating cry.
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