What is Pallas's fish eagle?
{{speciesbox | name = Pallas's fish eagle | image = Pallas's Fish Eagle ( Haliaeetus leucoryphus) 2.jpg | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{Cite iucn |title=''Haliaeetus leucoryphus'' |author=BirdLife International |page=e.T22695130A119358956 |date=2017 |access-date=22 October 2018}}</ref> | genus = Haliaeetus | species = leucoryphus | authority = ([[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]], 1771) | synonyms = ''Aquila leucorypha'' Pallas, 1771 }} '''Pallas's fish eagle''' (''Haliaeetus leucoryphus''), also known as '''Pallas's sea eagle''' or '''band-tailed fish eagle''', is a large, brownish [[sea eagle]]. It breeds in the east [[Palearctic]] in [[Kazakhstan]], [[Russia]], [[Tajikistan]], [[Turkmenistan]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Mongolia]], [[China]], [[India]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Myanmar]] and [[Bhutan]]. It is listed as [[Endangered species|endangered]] on the [[IUCN Red List]].<ref name=iucn/> Apparently, this species achieved its current, essentially land-locked distribution peculiar among sea-eagles due to the collision of [[Indian Plate]] with [[Eurasia]]. Although the exact timing is not well resolved, it is quite certain that Pallas's fish eagle is a descendant of those sea-eagles which inhabited the northwestern [[Bay of Bengal]] when it was a shallow straits separating mainland Asia from India, which still was an island at that time. == References == {{reflist}} {{Biology-stub}} [[Category:Birds of Asia]] [[Category:Eagles]]