White-tailed Eagle
White-tailed Eagle
Here the details of the White-tailed Eagle named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Falco Albicilla Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.89
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Haliaeetus
Taxonomy Code: whteag
Type Locality: Restricted type locality, Sweden, ex Fn. Suec.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HALIAEETUS
(Accipitridae; Ϯ White-tailed Eagle H. albicilla) L. haliaetus or haliaetos sea-eagle, osprey < Gr. ἁλιαιετος haliaietos sea-eagle, osprey < ἁλι- hali- sea- < ἁλς hals, ἁλος halos sea; αετος aetos eagle; "6. HALIÆETUS. Bec assez droit à la base; cire convexe; narines lunulées, transverses; tarses épais, écailleux: ongles intérieur et postérieur grands. ... GENRE VI, HALIÆETUS. ... ESPÈCE. 9. HALIÆETUS Nisus. L'Aigle de mer." (de Savigny 1809): based on Aλιαιετος, Nisus, and Haliæetos of ancient authors, "Pygargus" and "Albicilla" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and Vultur Albicilla Linnaeus, 1766; "Haliæetus Savigny, Descr. Égypte, Ois., 1809, p. 68, 85. Type, by monotypy, Haliæetus nisus Savigny = Falco albicilla Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 257).
Var. Haliaeatus, Haliaetos, Haliaetus, Haliacetus, Halaeetus, Halioetus, Halyaetus, Heliaeetus.
Synon. Blagrus, Cuncuma, Ossifraga, Pontoaetus, Thalasoaetus.
albicilla / albicillus
● Med. L. Albicilla Gaza’s 1476 name for the White-tailed Eagle (equivalent to Gr. πυγαργος pugargos type of eagle < πυγη pugē rump; αργος argos white); "41. FALCO. ... Albicilla. 8. F. cera flava, rectricibus albis: intermediis apice nigris. Fn. svec. 58. Pygargus, Albicilla, Hinnularia. Bell. av. 15. Gesn. av. 205. Aldr. orn. l. 2. c. 5. Will. ornith. 31. Raj. av. 7. n. 5. β. Aquila, capite albo. Catesb. car. I. p. 1. t. 1. Habitat in Europa, America." (Linnaeus 1758). This epithet is the fourteenth name in avian nomeclature (Haliaeetus).
● L. albus white; -capillus headed < capillus hair of the head (Mohoua (the Moineau a tête blanche of Lesson 1830), syn. Myiopagis gaimardii, subsp. Todiramphus chloris (the Alcyon a tête blanche of Dumont de Sainte Croix 1823)).
● Mod. L. albicilla white-tailed < L. albus white; Mod. L. cilla tail; the mistaken use of cilla for tail in ornithology goes back to mediaeval writers who misread motacilla, Varro’s name for the wagtail (< dim. L. motare to move about or shake, i.e. a little shaker or wagger), as ‘shake-tail’ (Ficedula).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)