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Immature © James (Jim) Holmes
Juvenile © Nayana Amin
Adult © Neoh Hor Kee
Immature © Fadzrun A.
+ 3
Adult © Wich’yanan Limparungpatthanakij
Habitat © Don-Jean Léandri-Breton

Gray-headed Fish-Eagle Icthyophaga ichthyaetus

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Fierce-looking brown-and-white fish-eater. Note adult’s contrasting white belly and white tail with a broad black bar across the tip. Juvenile is paler overall, with a streaked brown breast and barred underwings. Smaller Lesser Fish-Eagle has a less contrasting tail pattern and typically a more jagged-edged white belly patch in adults; juveniles average paler below overall. Gray-headed forages around rivers, lakes, and swamplands. Vocal; often detected by its hoarse yelping screams.

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