WoRMS taxon details
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766)
AphiaID: 159374
AphiaID: 159374
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Falconiformes (Order) > Accipitridae (Family) > Haliaeetus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Haliaeetus Savigny, 1809 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details] basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] basis of record: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] basis of record: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p. [details] basis of record: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details] additional source: Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (336 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (63 nucleotides; 45 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: Length: 31-37" (79-94 cm); Wingspan: 70-90" (178-229 cm) [details] Distribution: North America [details] Reproduction: Breeds from Newfoundland across Canada to Alaska and south to the southern United States. Eggs laid between late February and mid June. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159374 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159374 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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