White-tailed Eagle White Tailed Eagle

Bird - Haliaeetus albicilla

The white-tailed eagle is a very large species of sea eagle widely distributed across temperate Eurasia and as far west as West Greenland and Iceland. White-tailed eagles usually live most of the year near large bodies of open water.

Photo Credit: White-tailed eagle in Svolvaer, Norway by Yathin S Krishnappa, 2012. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haliaeetus_albicilla_(Svolv%C3%A6r,_2012).jpg. Licenced with CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0.

English

Term Dialect
White-tailed Eagle Standard English

Greenlandic

Term Dialect
Nattoralik Kalaallisut

Inuktut

Term Dialect
Natturalik Nunavimmiutitut - Sanikiluarmiut
Tingmiaqpak Kangiryuarmiutun

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