Haliaeetus

Bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus, copyright Andy Morffew.

Belongs within: Accipitridae.

Haliaeetus, the sea eagles, is a genus of large eagles found in the Old World and North America that feed predominantly on fish; species commonly have white heads, white tails and/or yellow beaks and feet.

<==Haliaeetus Savigny 1809 [=Haliaetus Vieillot 1818; incl. Blagrus Blyth 1846; Haliaeetinae] CC10
    |  i. s.: H. piscator Milne-Edwards 1871 [=Haliaetus (l. c.) piscator] M02
    |--+--H. leucoryphus LM05
    |  |--H. pelagicus (Pallas 1811) LM05, I92
    |  `--+--H. albicilla (Linnaeus 1758) LM05, M02 (see below for synonymy)
    |     |    |--H. a. albicilla USDI77
    |     |    `--H. a. greenlandicus USDI77
    |     `--H. leucocephalus LM05 [incl. Ichthyophaga australis Harrison & Walker 1973 WH02, H. australis CC10]
    `--+--+--H. leucogaster (Gmelin 1788) LM05, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
       |  `--H. sanfordi LM05
       `--+--+--H. vocifer LM05
          |  `--H. vociferoides LM05
          `--Ichthyophaga LM05
               |--I. humilis LM05
               `--I. ichthyaetus LM05

Inorganic: Haliaeetus pelagicus minilorientalus Okamura 1987 O87

Haliaeetus albicilla (Linnaeus 1758) LM05, M02 [=Falco albicilla M02; incl. Haliaetus angustipes Jánossy 1983 M02, Haliaeetus brevipes (l. c.) M02, *Haliaeetus nisus CC10]

Haliaeetus leucogaster (Gmelin 1788) LM05, CC10 [=Falco leucogaster CC10, Haliaetus leucogaster CC10, Ichthyaetus leucogaster CC10; incl. *Blagrus dimidiatus CC10, Haliaeetus leucogaster pallidus Mathews 1912 CC10, Haliaeetus sphenurus Gould 1838 CC10]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[I92] Iwahashi, J. (ed.) 1992. Reddo Deeta Animaruzu: a pictorial of Japanese fauna facing extinction. JICC: Tokyo.

[LM05] Lerner, H. R. L., & D. P. Mindell. 2005. Phylogeny of eagles, Old World vultures, and other Accipitridae based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 327–346.

[M02] Mlíkovský, J. 2002. Cenozoic Birds of the World. Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press: Praha.

[O87] Okamura, C. 1987. New facts: Homo and all Vertebrata were born simultaneously in the former Paleozoic in Japan. Original Report of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory 15: 347–573.

[USDI77] USDI (United States Department of the Interior). 1977. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants—republication of list of species. Federal Register 42: 36420–36431.

[WH02] Worthy, T. H., & R. N. Holdaway. 2002. The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric life of New Zealand. Indiana University Press: Bloomington (Indiana).