Balkhash is also the habitat of 120 types of bird, including cormorants, Marbled Teal, pheasants, golden eagle and great egret; 12 of those are endangered, including White Pelican, Dalmatian Pelican, spoonbill, whooper and erne.
Due to the widening of Kunashiri Highway, in recent years whale and dolphin watching have become popular in the summer, whereas viewing Steller’s Sea Eagle, White-tailed (sea) Eagles, (earless) seals, and drift-ice are popular in the winter.
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Sea eagles and otters have made a strong comeback and are now very common in and around the fjord.
It is an important breeding, moulting and resting area for numerous birds including the Kingfisher, Bittern, Whooper Swan, Goosander, Great Crested Grebe, Crane and Sea Eagle.
For anti-ship duties some models were outfitted to carry one or two missiles, typically Sea Eagles or Exocets.
The scientific name is derived from Haliaeetus, New Latin for "sea eagle" (from the Ancient Greek haliaetos), and vocifer is derived from its original genus name, so named by the French naturalist François Levaillant, who called it 'the vociferous one'.
The Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus) also known as the Red-backed Sea-eagle in Australia, is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards and harriers.
His work is influenced by the Swedish painter Bruno Liljefors whose often brooding depictions of predator-prey action - the hunts engaged between sea eagle and eider, goshawk and black grouse - help to create their darkly primitive atmosphere.
Gavdos is featured in James Aldridge's 1944 novel The Sea Eagle, which tells the story of the escape of a Greek partisan and two Australian soldiers after the Battle of Crete.
The Sanford's Sea Eagle was discovered by and named after Dr Leonard C. Sanford, a trustee for the American Museum of Natural History.