Rare Sea Eagle Descends on North America – These Giant Raptors Are Thousands of Miles from Home

Canadian wildlife officials spotted a Steller’s sea eagle thousands of miles away from the massive predatory bird’s native territory.

Terra Nova National Park, located in the northeastern Canadian province of Newfoundland, revealed last month in a Facebook post that the area had an “unusual visitor.”

The Steller’s sea eagle is “usually found in the Russian Far East, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula,” according to the post, but the one spotted at the park was “the only one of its kind known to be in the Western Hemisphere.”

The bird has a wingspan of eight feet and usually weighs 13 pounds, making it 25 percent larger than the bald eagle, the post said.

Terra Nova is usually closed during the winter months, but staff opened a road

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