It’s seldom seen in rainforests or coastal heaths. It prefers wooded areas and open forests, but can be found in coastal and alpine regions.
The Wedge-tailed Eagle has an extremely large range: it’s found throughout mainland Australia, Tasmania and southern Papua New Guinea. Where do Wedge-tailed Eagles live?Ī juvenile Wedgie photo bombing a remote camera on Monjebup Reserve, WA. The name Aquila audax, means bold eagle in Latin. For the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains, the eagle’s claw takes the form of a constellation known as Wilto (the Southern Cross). Wedge-tailed Eagles feature in many dreaming stories for Aboriginal Australians: for example, the eagle Bunjil is an important creator being for the Kulin people of central Victoria. Photo Alec Brennan.įrom below you can see its flight feathers stretched like fingers and the wedge-shaped tail that gives the species its common name. Wedge-tailed Eagles are big, strong birds, and can be slow to take flight from the ground. Once on the wing, they soar with ease, circling at great heights to altitudes of 2,000m! Have you seen a Wedge-tailed Eagle take off from the ground? You might remember the bird’s heavy flight, its slow, powerful wing beats. The bird’s long powerful legs are feathered to the base of the toe.Ī Wedge-tailed Eagle in flight. Young birds have brown feathers that become progressively darker as the bird ages mature adults are dark brown to black with white and bronze feathers on their necks and wings. It can weigh 4kg, measure 1m from head to tail-tip and has a wingspan of up to 2.3m (females are larger than males). Like other birds of prey, it has a hooked bill and large talons. The Wedge-tailed Eagle is one of 24 diurnal (day-active) raptor species in Australia.
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