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Ah The Wedge Tail Eagle , a beautiful bird of prey but unfortunately you don't see them all that often.



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Blues Man wrote:

Ah The Wedge Tail Eagle , a beautiful bird of prey but unfortunately you don't see them all that often.

 Saw one couple of months ago,near Winton.It had just gone through the driver's side windscreen of a Mack Roadtrain.Dead Wedgetail and dead windscreen.Cheers



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Plenty of them in northern areas of SA recently.

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When we moved to Mount Barker, a neighbour said we had a wedge tailed eagles nest in the remnant bush at the back of the block, and they return every 2 years.

Took me ages to find it (4 acres of bush) but it's huge, one day an eagle landed just outside the front fence, and hovered around for about 5 minutes. See a few every summer.

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Yobarr, is that just stuffed then ? or mounted as well ?

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Craig1 wrote:

Yobarr, is that just stuffed then ? or mounted as well ?

 Just well and truly stuffed,Craig! Cheers



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If it attacks parachutes, paragliders and truck windscreens, then this Aussie bird can't be the sharpest tool in the shed.

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They also use to take children up to the age of 10 back around 300 years ago, that's why they were heavily hunted by the Australian inhabitants back then.

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Well at least that will take some suspicion off the poor old Dingoes then.

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In 2011 we got to Kununurra and went to the tourist info centre and received a welcome pack . It contained a WA map, a bag for firewood, heavy duty gloves (still in caravan) long handled tongs to pick up road kill ,a heavy duty bag for roadkill. But the best freebie was a beautiful sticker that stated " Stop for a wedgie" showing a wedgie taking flight from road kill. Iconic and well treasured.

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Well at least that will take some suspicion off the poor old Dingoes then.

 Reminds me of the "John Deere" jokes from 40 years ago! Cheers



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A bit more news about our Wedge-tailed eagles. Some lucky person was able to take a picture of nine of them in one photo.

 

They are really big birds:

 

Bird watcher's Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle photo shows group's vulture-like behaviour

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-27/wedge-tailed-eagle-photo-shows-vulture-behaviour/101015390



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they get attracted to road kill and they are not as quick as crows in getting out of the way

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Best I can do with a 135mm lens. Gundabooka NP south west of Bourke. An eagle area, a fair bit of a climb up the hill to look down.

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Beautiful shot.

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dogbox wrote:

they get attracted to road kill and they are not as quick as crows in getting out of the way

 That's because crows go kah car, all the time, and warn each other...



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That shot of the Bald Eagle seems to reflect the state of the US at the moment, Confused.

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I had the pleasure of holding a wedge tailed eagle on my arm a few years ago at a bird sanctuary. Most birds feel relatively light  when they are on your arm, but not the wedgie! He weight a ton and made my arm ache after a while. An absolutely beautiful bird both up close and in flight! 



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Pete 67 wrote- "That's because crows go kah car, all the time, and warn each other..."

Graham Kennedy got rubbed out because he reckoned Crows went " F..aaar"
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Yes Craig I remember watching that episode and wondering how he was going to get away with that :)

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