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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tideliner" data-source="post: 1601142" data-attributes="member: 49435">Amarrillo , With such a large distinctive bird as a sea eagle I would have thought historic evidence would have been easy to find. After all we have plenty of evidence of birds like cranes dating back 500 years , we know when greylags  ceased to breed in the Fens. When the last Great Auk was killed in the Uk when Avocets , ruffs , ospreys and so on died out as breeding species. ( I know they are back now ).There had been lots of documentation on scavengers over battlefields , ravens , crows , buzzards yet I have not come across anything about sea eagles. We know red kites were common urban birds until 300 years ago so how come we seem to have so little evidence  about sea eagles in Eastern England? I would suggest the evidence is so scarce because they were not here as breeding birds in recent history. Every mans hand would have been against them since humans started to keeping sheep, pigs and chickens. Yes they may have been about in Roman times , but the habitat and landscape management has changed greatly since that time. I would have thought such an iconic bird would have had its place in local mythology if it was ever here so if anyone has any concrete evidence that sea eagles bred in east Anglia in the last 400 years I would love to see it.</blockquote>