This bird having small size only 32 cm, easily recognizable, black and white. Long black crest and often lifted up. Most of the feathers black, with white stripe on chest, white mottled wings, and abdomen dark striped ribbon. At the time of flight, short rounded wings patterned stripes of black and gray fur secondary (in contrast to the primary feathers are black tipped pale).
Fluttering like a raven, while sliding the wing looks flat.

Inhabit the rain forests throughout the region starting from the bottom until it reaches an altitude 1800 m above sea level. However, more is found starting from a height of 200-1800 m above sea level. In addition to the rain forest, this species is also found in the forest industry with pine forest vegetation types.

Their food are specific to small creatures cause of its size such as small lizards and insects such as grasshoppers and dragonflies. Sometimes also grabbed a small fruit-eating bats.

Live in pairs or in small groups. Fly short distances, grabbing insects flapped in the air or on the ground. Often found along streams or in open forests and villages. At the time of the migration season is more likely to fly high.

Albatross habitat is usually in areas close to water. While foraging habits are circling in the waters, large lakes, big rivers and swamps. Frequently visited the coastal areas until the area reaches 3000 m height.

The eagle food is quite varied, but not all types of food eaten by this species. Its favorite food is a type of sea snakes turtles and young sea turtles. Water birds such as sea Shearing, petrel, gulls, frigate. Types of mammals that eat normally the type of domestic rodents like mice in general.

When entering the breeding season, sea eagle pair will make nests in tall trees among other trees. Nest material usually consists of twigs, dry wood, foliage dam sometimes seaweed. Large nest with a width of about 1meter and length can reach 1.65 meters. If used continuously, the nest can reach a height of about 2-3meter.

The number of eggs produced an average of 2-3 eggs. If good breeding conditions for all eggs can be hatch.
The spread of the White Belly Sea Eagles in the world including India, Southeast Asia, to Australia.

Sea eagle is the territorial kind of eagles. They will keep the nest from predators and human threats. Cruising areas while the breeding season will usually be more on the narrow. In the islands a thousand pair of breeding sea eagles is estimated home range area of about 13.39 km.

Now, less than 30 years after the bald eagle was put on the endangered species list, there’s great news. The number of eagles in the lower 48 states has grown to at least 12,000 (including adults and young). And in 45 states, the species is no longer listed as endangered! (It’s now listed as “threatened” instead.)
So extra protection for endangered species really can work. It can help keep them from going extinct (dying out).

A group of kids in Portland, Oregon, is working on a neat environmental project after school. The project is so successful that others like it may start up in cities across the United States.
The Green City Data Project began more than a year ago. First, 100 kids from a dozen schools got some special training. They learned how to make maps, identify plants and animals, measure pollution in water, and more.

Next, the students went out and explored some natural areas in and near their city. They drew maps, studied water samples, and collected information on plants and animals there.
Then the group met with city planners. As the city keeps growing, the planners have to decide where new buildings and roads should go–and where protected areas and parks should be. The valuable information collected by the kids is used to help make those decisions!

Becker and Souza have gone well beyond just buying land to be managed as a conservation trust, or Private Natural Heritage Reserve, as it is known under Brazilian law. In the longer term they are working to bring the more than 18,000 acres that make up the entire Serra Bonita mountain range into the Serra Bonita Reserve Complex. They have developed environmental education programs focused on improving community-based natural resource conservation in the area and developing sustainable food production and income producing projects for the people of the area.

Instituto Uiracu also supports a team of park rangers, hired from the local community, who protect the conservation land from illegal logging, poaching and forest fires. Restoration of some of the former plantations they have acquired is another important aspect of their natural resource management work.

The organization is spearheading research into the plants and animals of the Serra Bonita mountain range, many of which are endemic and little studied. To enhance this work, a research station and lodge have been built so that visiting scientists can stay and work within the Serra Bonita Reserve.

The most obvious need for the Instituto Uiracu is funding to allow them to purchase more land. Through their Adopt an Acre of the Serra Bonita Reserve program, Becker and Souza use the interest on money donated to purchase land. The capital remains as an ongoing investment, ensuring the future of Instituto Uiracu. Other donations are used to provide salaries, equipment and uniforms for the park rangers. The Instituto also encourages interested parties to contact them regarding volunteering on their projects.

National Geographic Buffett Awards are given annually for Leadership in Latin American and African Conservation. The Howard G. Buffett Foundation provides funding for the 25,000USD prizes, which are given in recognition of work that improves natural resource management, enable winners to continue and potentially expand their work.

The Steller’s Sea Eagle is the largest bird in the genus Haliaeetus and is one of the largest birds of prey overall. Females weigh on the average 15 to 20 pounds while the males weigh 11 to 13 pounds. An unverified record exists of a female that gorged herself on salmon and weighed 28 pounds.

The Steller’s Sea Eagle breeds on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the coastal area around the Sea of Okhotsk, the lower parts of the Amur river and on northern Sakhalin and Shantar Islands, Russia. It has 14 not the usual 12 retrices. Retrices lie in a single horizontal row on the rear margin of the tail and help the bird brake and steer in flight. The skull and beak are the largest of any eagle and comparable to the largest Old World Vultures, the biggest raptors.

The Steller’s Eagle is classified as vulnerable which means that it is likely to become endangered unless circumstances threatening its survival and reproduction change. It is a threatened species. The main threats to its survival are habitat alteration, industrial pollution, overfishing, and poisoning by lead shot. If present activities continue, the Steller’s Sea Eagle could become extinct in fifty years. The current population is around 5000.

The Steller’s Sea Eagle’s main diet includes salmon, a favorite, trout and cod. It also preys on water dwelling birds such as ducks, geese, swans, cranes and gulls. Mammals, crabs, squid, and carrion also round out its diet. They may even prey on young seals. This particular eagle builds an aries (a platform nest that is used and refurbished for several years), high up in trees or rocks, some 70 feet up.

Courtship usually occurs between February and March with white-green eggs laid around April to May. Usually only one hatchling survives. Incubation occurs between 39-45 days and the chicks hatch with a gray to white down. At ten weeks the down changes to brown feathers and the bird learns to fly. They reach sexual maturity at around four to five years. Full adult plumage appears at eight to ten years. Eggs and hatchlings can be preyed upon by martens (a mammal), and birds, mostly Corvids. Once fully grown the bird has no natural predators.

Steller’s Sea Eagles are known to stay near their prey by lakes, rivers and oceans. They are recognized as preferring to steal their prey from each other. The thought is that it is easier to carry off something that has already been caught rather than fishing for it outright.

The primary goal of this monitoring program is to conserve the population of this rare species in the Sakhalin area. Dr. Masterov, a PhD from Moscow State University was contracted to conduct field studies of this bird to include such information as abundance, age and sex composition and reproduction success. Exxon Neftegas Limited is funding this program as it is building a pipeline and project facility in Russia. They are building around the Sakhalin and Khabarovsk Krai area.

Included with this program is the building of nineteen artificial nests. Eagles are monitored to determine their usage. The primary goal is to move them away from the Sakhalin facilities to new coastal sites for breeding. In 2006, the Steller’s Sea Eagle first used an artificial nest near the Chavyvo well site.
Up until just recently, Steller’s Sea Eagles have been difficult to study. There was once a military outpost in Kamchatka from the Soviet era which prevented any scientific study of this rare bird. The harsh wintery conditions in this area have also prevented study of the bird. The Steller’s Sea Eagle may be seen at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh.