Haliaeetus is a genus of four species of eagles, closely related to the sea eagles in the genus Ichthyophaga.

The genus Haliaeetus was introduced in 1809 by the French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny to accommodate a single species, the "L'aigle de mer" with the binomial name Haliaeetus nisus.

Savigny's binomial name is now regarded as a junior synonym of Falco albicilla (the white-tailed eagle) that had been described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

[1][2] The genus name is from Latin haliaetus or haliaetos meaning "sea-eagle" or "osprey".

[3] This genus includes the following four species:[4]