Description Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus
English: A Grey-headed Fish Eagle in Kazaringa, Assam, India.
Date 15 April 2008, 17:38
Source Grey-headed Fish-Eagle (Icthyophaga ichthyaetus) http://www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2427668267/
Author Lip Kee Yap from Singapore, Republic of Singapore http://www.flickr.com/people/64565252@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ichthyophaga_ichthyaetus_-Kazaringa,_Assam,_India-8.jpg

The grey-headed fish eagle (Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus) is a fish-eating bird of prey from South East Asia. It is a large stocky raptor with adults having dark brown upper body, grey head and lighter underbelly and white legs. Juveniles are paler with darker streaking. It is often confused with the lesser fish eagle (Ichthyophaga humilis) and the Pallas's fish eagle. The lesser fish eagle is similar in plumage but smaller and the Pallas’s fish eagle shares the same habitat and feeding behaviour but is larger with longer wings and darker underparts. Is often called tank eagle in Sri Lanka due to its fondness for irrigation tanks. Ichthyaetus come from the Greek terms meaning fish-eagle, ichtys-fish and aetos-eagle. Order: Accipitriformes, Family: Accipitridae, Genus: Ichthyophaga, Species: Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus (Horsfield, 1821).