'''[[Etymology]]''': ''Haliaeetus'', [[New Latin]] for "sea-eagle". ''leucoryphus'', "white-headed", from [[Ancient Greek]] ''leukos'' "white" + ''corypha'', "head".
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{{#tag:ref|The caution advised by [[#CITEREFWinkHeidrichFentzloff1996|Wink ''et al.'' (1996)]] regarding their more recent estimates which were based on a small-bird rule-of-thumb [[mutation rate]] turned out to have been well justified. [[Molecular evolution]] in sea-eagles, as demonstrated by the [[fossil record]], is very slow — up to an [[order of magnitude]] less than in [[perching bird]]s.|name=caution-Wink}}
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* {{IUCN|id=22695130 |title=''Haliaeetus leucoryphus'' |assessor=BirdLife International |assessor-link=BirdLife International |version=2016.2 |year=2014 |accessdate=26 November 2016
