Talk:White-tailed eagle

Updated status

I updated the status of the White-tailed Eagle in the taxobox as well as in the references. NaturalDisaster 24 August 2006

Am I Mistaken?

Or is that a BALD Eagle in the far right picture at the bottom of the page? It sure looks like one.

Indeed you are right, the original creator has uploaded it under the correct latin name (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) for Bald Eagle but as a White-tailed Eagle. Emoscopes ^Talk 00:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't know which image you're talking about. I couldn't find the one that shows a bald eagle instead of a white tailed eagle. Did it get replaced with the correct one? EAGLITIZED (talk) 21:36, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Bald Eagle

What's the bald eagle got to do with anything. The bald eagle article doesn't mention the white-tailed eagle. 21:52, 11 June 2007 (UTC) (so prominantly) - just noticed it does 172.141.63.119 21:53, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Crossword Puzzle Answer

I get bored at work all the time and do the NY Times crossword puzzle... Erne or Ernes is a favorite answer of crossword puzzle creators. It might be a little bit of trivia to throw in the article somewhere. Rigbyl7 02:26, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Map is wrong

White-tailed eagle stays all year along the entire Norwegian coast, but are most common from Bergen and northwards. Orcaborealis 18:09, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Updated section on population recovery in Europe

I did some minor changes to the section, mainly clarifying that the eagle did NOT go extinct in all of Central Europe except Poland. In fact, a number of local populations survived throughout eastern, central and northern Europe. This is important, since this is a result of local conservation actions, and since this later proved to have preserved considerable amounts of local genetic diversity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.17.114.40 (talk) 04:37, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Wingspan

250–300 cm is utter nonsense. Mullarney, Svensson & Zetterström give a range of 190–240 cm, while Ferguson-Lees & Christie have it at 193–244 cm. Never seen more than 250 cm offered in ornithological literature, and even that's a generous approximation. --Anshelm '77 (talk) 14:37, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Added more info in the Near-extinction and recovery in Europe section...

Just added some info on the news that two of the fifteen birds introduced to Ireland last year, were found dead in Co. Kerry in February 2008 - allegedly poisoned. KeithHennessy (talk) 17:03, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Page needed?

In several places in this article the tag is used. I have not seen this before. What does it mean? It is very distracting and detracts from the article. I propose to edit these out unless they are serving some purpose.__DrChrissy (talk) 18:44, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

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The white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) is a large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, found in Europe and northern Asia. Measuring 66–94 cm (26–37 in) in length, the species' 1.78–2.45 m (5.8–8.0 ft) wingspan is on average the largest of any eagle. Although they often scavenge, the eagles may also hunt prey such as fish, birds and mammals.Photo Yathin S Krishnappa

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Supernatural bioaccumulation ?

In the chapter "Causes of decline" we can read "Other pollutants [than DDT] carelessly put into the white-tailed eagles natural environments included heavy metal contaminations which affect them through bioaccumulation. These were recorded in white-tailed eagles, to 6600 mg/g, compared to about 2500 mg/g in peregrine falcons & only 100-280 g in grey partridges (Perdix perdix) and ring-necked pheasants."

How can a concentration be "6600 mg/g" ? That is 6.6 g/g ! BrossàDent (talk) 21:19, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Good catch. The original source is not online (being a 1965 conference report in Swedish), but is cited in another paper. That one does not provide the eagle values but provides the pheasant figure: a mercury concentration of 20000-45000 ng/g (i.e., 0.020-0.045 mg/g). Which confusingly is stated in our article as plain "100-280 g", which is clearly nonsensical, too. Sigh.

Best guess, the actual figure is meant to be 0.066 mg/g. But without being able to check the source, that's not good enough. I'm removing the entire sentence for the time being. If someone can rustle up the cited source, please give a shout. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:47, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

References

Misuse of "very seldom"

This:

“ However, they very seldomly take any healthy specimens and mostly feed on these after death. Of 36 cases of feeding on lambs and kids by white-tailed eagles in Norway, only 12 could be proven to have been taken alive by the eagles.[32][177][178] ”

seems incorrectly phrased to me. 12/36 is not seldom, certainly not very seldom. (This isn't a >50%/<50% kind of number. 1/3 is huge.) And even moreso since those were the proven cases, which means there were more. Invasive Spices (talk) 19:53, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

• Done: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White-tailed_eagle&diff=1025823271&oldid=1024933587 Invasive Spices (talk) 19:45, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Ireland not included on the map

These birds are fairly widespread on the coasts of the island of Ireland, but the map doesn't include Ireland in their habitat. I think this should be corrected?

http://ww2.rspb.org.uk/about-the-rspb/about-us/media-centre/releases/193670-irelands-largest-bird-of-prey-makes-guest-appearance-in-northern-counties#:~:text=Ireland's%20largest%20bird%20of%20prey%20makes%20guest%20appearance%20in%20northern%20counties,-1%20July%202008&text=Over%20the%20past%20couple%20of,Counties%20Down%2C%20Armagh%20and%20Tyrone.

Is map wrong ??

I do not find it logical that the breeding areas of migratory birds are in North Asia, aren't some birds supposed to be residing for a year..? I mean the Area is very large for nesting only...

Haliaeetus albicilla distribution map.png عثمان التطواني (talk) 01:07, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Unknown rationale for when citations are placed in "Cited works"

Any responses would be appreciated. J JMesserly (talk) 08:53, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Whitetail confusion.

When I read the article on white-tailed-sea-eagles, it said the ones in western Eurasia are paler, and the ones in eastern Eurasia are richer brown. In an encyclopedia, it features several photos of these beautiful birds in Hokkaido, Japan, except they're pale and scruffy looking like the ones more east. I'm confused! P.S, even though I said "scruffy looking", I like the plumage of western ones more than eastern ones. :p EAGLITIZED (talk) 22:08, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

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Length of article

Someone has added a 'This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably...' box at the top of the page, dated (September 2025). However they have not put any further justification for that decision in the talk page. I think that the article is commendably detailed and extremely well referenced. I do not agree that it is too long, particularly since the contents list near the top of the page allows you to navigate to the section in which you are interested. In fact, in my opinion, the article is of a level of detail and referencing to which other articles on other species of organisms should aspire.

My final comment on the proposal to split it is that splitting articles which are about a single species, as this one is, would be a change of practice for Wikipedia as far as I am aware, and, in my opinion, an unwelcome one. It would mean that, in order to find information on different aspects of the biology of the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), you would have to toggle backwards and forwards between a group of pages, which would not appear to me to be an improvement.

I recommend removing the box at the top of the article, but have not done so because a] I would welcome other views on the subject, b] I would particularly like to hear a detailed justification of the suggestions from its originator and c] I am at best an intermittent editor of Wikipedia so although I am a professional biologist, it would be presumptuous of me to curtail potential disagreement with my views by acting precipitately. Many thanks DrRickZTTwo (talk) 23:59, 2 November 2025 (UTC)