Pallas’s Fish Eagle weird migration (1 Viewer)

[James Lowther]

So I just found out Pallas’s Fish Eagle breeds in tropical South Asia (Indian subcontinent) during the northern hemisphere winter, then migrates north in the summer to spend its non-breeding period in the eastern palearctic (Mongolia, Kazakhstan etc.)

http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/pallass-fish-eagle-haliaeetus-leucoryphus

Consider my mind blown. Are there any other land birds that regularly visit the palearctic from breeding grounds further south? There are a few seabirds I know of (Sooty and Great Shearwaters, Wilson’s Petrel)

James

 

[connorco]

While not in the Palearctic, here in the US, we often get southern vagrants such as Yellow-green Vireo and Tropical Kingbird coming up north in late fall.