According to the operational headquarters of Rusia's Krasnodar region, more than 1,200 birds were rescued and more than a thousand have already been transferred to rehabilitation centres and zoos.

They start as a downy ball of fluff on a remote New Zealand island. Then they fledge across the Pacific. Only a handful have ever been found again.

Annual salmon runs provide an enormous bounty and Steller's sea eagle nests are typically located near coasts and rivers where these fish appear en masse. These birds of prey hunt from a perch or ...