white-breasted sea eagle

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Noun

white-breasted sea eagle (plural white-breasted sea eagles)

  1. A large bird of prey, Haliaeetus leucogaster, native across Southeast Asia and northern Australia.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 170:
      The white-breasted sea eagle’s flight was almost noiseless as it dropped out of the sky, falling down, descending down, so quick, until it flew, whistling in behind Will to scoop the stinking trevally up from the mud.

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