Category Archive 'Wedge-tailed Eagle'

13 Oct 2016

From Down Under

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On Nullarbor Plain near Cocklebiddy, Western Australia… a very isolated part of Australia with nothing but views of saltbush in all directions: Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax) munching road-killed kangaroo.

15 Aug 2015

Wedge-Tailed Eagle Nails Drone

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It’s Aquila audax, the largest bird of prey in Australia.
These eagles can have wing spreads of up to 7′ 5″ (2.27 m). Pure death on drones.

Slow-motion video:

Via Ratak Mondosico.

04 Feb 2007

British Paraglider Attacked By Eagles

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Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax)

Reuters:

Britain’s top female paraglider has cheated death after being attacked by a pair of “screeching” wild eagles while competition flying in Australia.

Nicky Moss, 38, watched terrified as two huge birds began tearing into her parachute canopy, one becoming tangled in her lines and clawing at her head 2,500 meters (8,200ft) in the air.

“I heard screeching behind me and a eagle flew down and attacked me, swooping down and bouncing into the side of my wing with its claws,” Moss told Reuters on Friday.

“Then another one appeared and together they launched a sustained attack on my glider, tearing at the wing.”

The encounter happened on Monday while Moss — a member of the British paragliding team — was preparing for world titles this month at Manilla in northern New South Wales state.

One of the giant wedge-tailed eagles became wrapped in the canopy lines and slid down toward Moss, lashing at her face with its talons as her paraglider plummeted toward the ground.

“It swooped in and hit me on the back of the head, then got tangled in the glider which collapsed it. So I had a very, very large bird wrapped up screeching beside me as I screamed back,” Moss said.

She said she thought about dumping her parachute-style canopy and using the reserve.

“But then I would have been descending on my reserve as the birds continued shredding it, which I wasn’t happy about,” she said.

Wedge-tailed eagles are Australia’s largest predatory birds and have a wing-span of more than two meters.

Hat tip to Karen Myers.


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