A Steller's sea eagle that is very lost

> Vagrancy describes when birds veer off-course and continue roving around — potentially indefinitely — in search of others of their kind. It is not uncommon. There are records of albatrosses spending decades living as vagabond singletons in the wrong hemisphere, Dr. Lees said.

This paragraph is almost poetic. As a human, I can relate.

I like the longer title better:

"The Stellar's Sea Eagle That Is Very, Very Lost"

"spotted the eagle while scanning ducks"

I'm curious about this scanning of ducks.

I wonder what 'lost' means to an eagle. Is it possible that it knows exactly how to get home and it's just on an extended vacation in a foreign land? Oh, to be an eagle.

The article doesn't say anything about it, but I wonder if this sea eagle could hybridise with any local nearish relatives.

On checking, this page suggests that the individual could pair with a Bald Eagle:

https://www.aba.org/birding_archive_files/v40n4p28.pdf

Stripping the “this” in the title is quite misleading. Since Bill Clinton’s code name was eagle (not that you needed to know it, most people would guess “Eagle” without context probably means the president .