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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709 – 1746) was a German-born naturalist, though it seems he spent most of his (shortish) adult life in Russia, participating in the exploration of the North Pacific region. Another danger to the species comes from lead poisoning as they eat the carcasses of deer killed by hunters ( source ).

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