They were white-tailed eagles, species Haliaeetus albicilla, the European counterpart of our bald eagle.
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A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle ( " Haliaeetus albicilla " ).
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However, in Scandinavia, there are two cases of eagle-owls preying on fairly large nestlings of white-tailed eagles ( " Haliaeetus albicilla " ).
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These were identified as predominantly belonging to the white-tailed sea eagle ( " Haliaeetus albicilla " ) and represented between 8 and 20 individuals.
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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.
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The white-tailed eagle ( " Haliaeetus albicilla " ), which is very similar to the bald eagle, may harass or predate the osprey in Eurasia.
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One other living eagle, the white-tailed eagle ( " Haliaeetus albicilla " ), has been confirmed to take a human child in an isolated, possible predation attempt, a four-year-old girl in Sweden.
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Zoologists generally exclude from the " feral " category animals that were genuinely wild before they escaped from captivity : neither lions escaped from a zoo nor the sea eagles ( " Haliaeetus albicilla " ) recently re-introduced into the UK are regarded as feral.
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Persian gazelle ( Gazella sulguturossa ), Francolinus francolinus, bustard ( Otidis ), little bustard ( Otis tetrax ), white-tailed eagle ( Haliaeetus albicilla ), steppe eagle ( Aquila nipalensis ), peregrine ( Falco peregrinus ), saker falcon ( Falco cherrug ) and Mediterranean turtle are listed in Red Book.
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Golden eagles have been observed around the Sea of Okhotsk ( especially along Northern Japan ) to join large numbers of white-tailed eagles ( " Haliaeetus albicilla " ) and Steller's sea eagles ( " Haliaeetus pelagicus " ) in winter to scavenge and capture various, locally abundant fish amongst ice-floes.