Haliaeetus

Haliaeetus is a genus of four species of eagles, closely related to the sea eagles in the genus Ichthyophaga.

Haliaeetus
Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Subfamily:	Buteoninae
Genus:	Haliaeetus Savigny, 1809
Type species
Haliaeetus nisis Savigny, 1809 = Falco albicilla Linnaeus, 1758

Taxonomy

The genus Haliaeetus was introduced in 1809 by the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny to accommodate a single species, the "L'aigle de mer" with the binomial name Haliaeetus nisus. This is the type species. Savigny's binomial name is now regarded as a junior synonym of Falco albicilla (the white-tailed eagle) that had been described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.^[1][2] The genus name is from Latin haliaetus or haliaetos meaning "sea-eagle" or "osprey".^[3]

This genus includes the following four species:^[4]

Genus Haliaeetus – Savigny, 1809 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Bald eagle	Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) Two subspecies H. l. leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) H. l. washingtoniensis (Audubon, 1827)	Most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Pallas's fish eagle	Haliaeetus leucoryphus (Pallas, 1771)	Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, China, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EN
White-tailed eagle	Haliaeetus albicilla (Linnaeus, 1758) Two subspecies H. a. albicilla - (Linnaeus, 1758) H. a. groenlandicus - Brehm, CL, 1831	Greenland and Iceland across Europe and Asia to as far east as Hokkaido, Japan	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Steller's sea eagle	Haliaeetus pelagicus (Pallas, 1811)	Russia, Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU

References

1. Savigny, Marie Jules César (1809). Description de l'Égypte: Histoire naturelle (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Imprimerie impériale. pp. 68, 85.
2. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 299.
3. Jobling, James A. "Haliaeetus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Hoatzin, New World vultures, Secretarybird, raptors". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 November 2024.