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Photographs

In case this is of interest to future editors, the best photographs of wedge-tailed eagles that I've found on the Internet are:

Arrawa

Who uses the name Arrawa? I've never heard of it and can find no references to it on the internet besides Wikipedia. --Ptcamn 16:05, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Britain's Top Woman Paraglider Attacked by Eagles Mid-Flight

"The wedge-tailed eagles are Australia’s largest bird of prey and are among the world’s biggest eagles. They swoop upon sheep and have wing spans of more than 7 1/2 feet."^[1] Crocoite 23:34, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Bernard Lagan (Friday, February 02, 2007). "Britain's Top Woman Paraglider Attacked by Eagles Mid-Flight". FOXNews.com. Retrieved 2007-02-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

Taxonomic status of Aquila audax

This paper looks interesting:

[1] as does this... [2]

cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:04, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like this book:

Brown, L.H., Amadon, D., 1968. Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World. Country Life Books, London.

is the one that hihlighted a close relationship so would be good to find though is a bit old. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can add the pdf above is a fascinating read! cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So can we use this to back up the statement? David Sher (talk) 00:57, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, also, wouldn't that book be too old to talk about super-families? David Sher (talk) 00:57, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Totemic

In Victoria the Eagle is totemic for many or all Kulin nation people, as Bunjil, the creator. I don't know if Bunjil is specifically a Wedge-tailed Eagle. See also Bunurong people.--Design (talk) 12:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dogs as part of its diet?

My parents live in a wooded region and own a small poodle. Apparently, one of these birds was circling above the dog until it was taken inside the house. Do they eat small dogs? 115.64.118.162 (talk) 05:50, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I had a 7 year old kelpie (medium sized dog - 30 kilograms) that I saved from a wedgie attack and escorted a kilometre throught the scrub with the eagle circling overhead so yes, they can take dogs. There was also an occasion when a 5 year old child was rescued from an eagle near Vivonne Bay in about 1999. He was clinging onto a tree with the eagle circling overhead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Euc (talk • contribs) 15:57, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wedge tailed eagle

I Love wedge tailed eagles! They are SO interesting! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.148.117.110 (talk) 00:22, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs citations

I'm not a fan of adding "citation needed" tags to articles unless I've tried to find the information but this one is seriously unreferenced and I don't have time go through it all myself. I have however removed the bit about them seeing infrared as it seems to be untrue. Any interested editors should read Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science#Wedge-Tailed Eagle eyesight and http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/30796/is-this-comparison-of-wedge-tailed-eagles-and-bald-eagles-accurate Richerman (talk) 16:46, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Interspecific Relations Incomplete

The section on interspecific relations is incomplete. During the late Pleistocene before the mass extinction, wedge-tailed eagles had to compete with the vulture Cryptogyps and the giant eagle-like predator Dynatoaetus. I have seen it suggested that when those birds were extant, the wedge-tailed eagle's niche must have been narrower. This is interesting enough to include in the article. (Please see articles on those extinct species for more info and sources) 2601:441:4900:A6E0:0:0:0:DE37 (talk) 00:26, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Excessive article length

Having just checked the amount of words in the article by pasting it out into a text editor (generally more accurate), it is 17,553 words long, which is frankly just insanity. The main culprits of this are the sections on Dietary biology and Breeding, which together account for 10,000 of those 17,553. In my opinion, both sections are also overdetailed and feature paragraphs of absurd lengths (the section on Interspecific predatory relationships is the worst offender, made up of two paragraphs of 535 and 466 words, respectively). I will try to break some of these paragraphs up and add more tags to show where maintenance is required, and might attempt some cleanup in the section on prey spectrum. More thoughts are welcome! The Morrison Man (talk) 21:25, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Bernard Lagan (Friday, February 02, 2007). "Britain's Top Woman Paraglider Attacked by Eagles Mid-Flight". FOXNews.com. Retrieved 2007-02-02. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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