Wedge Tailed Eagle

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  • Опубліковано 1 чер 2014
  • Free-flight presentation of birds of prey, Kangaroo Island, Australia

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  • @NocturnalTyphlosion
    @NocturnalTyphlosion 3 місяці тому +2

    i love how eagles are genuinely gorgeous and terrifying but their calls sound less intimidating than a kookaburra x3

  • @daliborjovanovic510
    @daliborjovanovic510 3 роки тому +34

    It's basically a flying Velociraptor.

    • @macromicro3609
      @macromicro3609 2 роки тому +7

      Actually, the Steller's sea eagle would be the flying Velociraptor. Wedge tail eagles are more of the Achillobators of the raptor family.

  • @Sylmarys24
    @Sylmarys24 7 років тому +83

    Such a magnificent Australian bird.

  • @FourtyFourCab
    @FourtyFourCab 4 роки тому +26

    Gutted this cut off mid way through. An engaging explanation of a majestic animal

  • @julianmccormack8704
    @julianmccormack8704 7 років тому +38

    I went to this place - the Raptor Park in Knagaroo Island. It was fantastic. And gave a great life to rescued birds.

    • @zonoka-5397
      @zonoka-5397 6 років тому +1

      Is it a good place to visit? Because i like eagles and i've been wanting to see some

    • @iiLoveAutumn
      @iiLoveAutumn 2 роки тому

      #KnagarooIsland #amazingplace

    • @iiLoveAutumn
      @iiLoveAutumn 2 роки тому

      @@zonoka-5397 Knagaroo is a place like Atlantis. Very mythical and beautiful... I wish I could get superpowers to travel down there, thousands and thousands of miles under the ocean...

  • @Nearlythere.63
    @Nearlythere.63 6 днів тому

    Isn't she just gorgeous xx

  • @shayneoneill1506
    @shayneoneill1506 3 роки тому +14

    I've never seen these guys in the wild on their own. Always in a pairs. Wedgies mate for life and I suspect they pair up pretty early in life.

    • @matthewcullen1298
      @matthewcullen1298 2 роки тому +3

      Sadly we've hit a few out western Queensland. We come up over the crest of a hill and one was feeding on roadkill in the middle of the road . We couldn't stop in time. I felt gutted. I hate seeing animals killed for no reason

    • @Vinnicombe1
      @Vinnicombe1 2 роки тому

      @@matthewcullen1298 that’s unfortunate :(

  • @trollaf627
    @trollaf627 7 років тому +15

    Hey - I'm a little late on this comment - but you are simply wow! fearless - the bird is beautiful. you are so relaxed. the bird is too. you are an extraordinary person. you really are. magnificent the both of you together.

  • @thantunaunggoldeneagle7391
    @thantunaunggoldeneagle7391 Рік тому +1

    ***I LOVE EAGLE 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅***
    ****THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO****

  • @yywant-qb7om
    @yywant-qb7om 7 місяців тому

    I like to watch the eagle the most. It’s such a big eagle! It looks like a golden eagle😮

  • @coolermoves
    @coolermoves 4 роки тому +11

    Magnificent creature, nothing will mess with that ?. I believe her..

    • @shayneoneill1506
      @shayneoneill1506 3 роки тому +2

      Oh heck yeah. Wedgies wont attack humans, but if you attack one they will give you a very hard time. The only other predator that could really take them on in australia would be a dingo, and dingos arent interested in attacking a bird that MIGHT beat them in a fight. Actually they do attack airplanes sometimes lol

  • @abelmantor7557
    @abelmantor7557 5 років тому +3

    One of my favorite kinds of eagles.

  • @Hereford567
    @Hereford567 6 місяців тому

    I remember pulling into my driveway in the country one day at just before dusk and seeing what I thought were two big dogs eating some road kill..it was two huge Wedgies eating a young roo. I’ll never forget the size of them. Strangely enough I went on to work on the RAAF/Boeing Wedgetail Project at Amberley, I was equally impressed…..maybe a little less so than the real thing.

  • @HeyYou-ii3kp
    @HeyYou-ii3kp Рік тому

    My fascination with eagles will never end, I just admire and respect them so much ❤

  • @user-nj1my6om8l
    @user-nj1my6om8l 3 роки тому +4

    This is also Australian military mascot pet

  • @earthcrow3538
    @earthcrow3538 5 років тому +14

    Drones aren't fond of them either. lol

  • @thegorn
    @thegorn 3 роки тому +3

    So informative thank you

  • @olivereaton6615
    @olivereaton6615 2 роки тому

    She is a beautiful bird

  • @jamesaron1967
    @jamesaron1967 3 роки тому +1

    Fascinating species

  • @t.won.e
    @t.won.e 3 роки тому +2

    this is my totem

  • @et4751
    @et4751 3 роки тому +3

    Thankyou for this We had two nests on our property, always thought abandoned till one year had pair back. Hard to tell if lost stock to them but as drought certainly carrion for them to feed on. When annoyed by polotics beyond our control like to think these guys dive bomb Pine Gap for shits & giggles

  • @stephenrogers981
    @stephenrogers981 3 роки тому +7

    Don't leave your cat outside haha

    • @pineapplesideways3820
      @pineapplesideways3820 3 роки тому +8

      Haha most Aussies hate cats especially in kangaroo Island

    • @macromicro3609
      @macromicro3609 2 роки тому

      @@pineapplesideways3820 Really? Even pet cats? wtf!

    • @pineapplesideways3820
      @pineapplesideways3820 2 роки тому +2

      @@macromicro3609 yeah lots of pet cat lovers but real Aussies know pet cats kill the beautiful native fauna too, and they pee on your car rancid buggers

    • @pineapplesideways3820
      @pineapplesideways3820 2 роки тому

      @@macromicro3609 ua-cam.com/video/DLG1jbPrp2Q/v-deo.html
      Turnah81 is funny and sets up harmless surprises because he is in the middle of a cat highway haha

    • @arcosprey4811
      @arcosprey4811 Рік тому +1

      @@macromicro3609 yep they’re a nuisance and pests basically. Ravage local wildlife.

  • @troykent4656
    @troykent4656 Рік тому

    Heaps more regal than a bald eagle.

  • @GAMEZONE-zl4sl
    @GAMEZONE-zl4sl 3 роки тому +3

    I think the most beautiful eagle is Philippines eagle and this one is hot🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @emilywright5478
    @emilywright5478 2 роки тому

    Killer bird

  • @DACHRONIKDISTRIBUTER
    @DACHRONIKDISTRIBUTER 6 років тому +1

    Kangaroo island is boss

  • @Udeza
    @Udeza 3 роки тому

    Holy fuck

  • @ddizon666
    @ddizon666 2 роки тому

    ate my favorite wood duck

  • @scottessery100
    @scottessery100 3 місяці тому

    Eating an adult red kangaroo 🦘 😮 wtf!!!!

  • @ibelieveicansoar
    @ibelieveicansoar 4 роки тому +2

    "Nothing's going to attack an adult eagle"
    Not a dingo?

    • @psychedashell
      @psychedashell 4 роки тому +5

      Dingos aren’t particularly aggressive, unless desperation and hunger has packed them together to take down bigger food anything bigger than they are will be avoided.

    • @psychedashell
      @psychedashell 4 роки тому +1

      @Deinonychusaurus Damage is a risk to any predator, nothing in its right mind likes being eaten.
      Your point about the eagle winning would be the more relevant one.

    • @psychedashell
      @psychedashell 4 роки тому +1

      @Deinonychusaurus Hahaha! Possibly!
      While they might be capable of a good fight don't forget they were outcompeted by the dingo on the mainland which is why they were only on Tasmania when they were hunted to extinction, we don't know how much of that openly aggressive since it doesn't take long for behavior to change in a species.

    • @psychedashell
      @psychedashell 4 роки тому +1

      @Deinonychusaurus Five hundred years.
      The dingo arrived in Australia through Asian/Aboriginal trades 3500 years ago - five hundred years before the Thylacine disappeared from the mainland, that's a pretty good time frame for a larger species to get loose, breed, spread and outcompete another animal. Especially when that animal was already limited to southern regions. Mainland Thylacine was a cool, dense forest predator that really only inhabited coastal southeastern and south central areas of Australia and was much smaller than the Tasmanian Thylacine; 20-30% smaller and 20-30% smaller than the southern dingoes as well. Doglike enough to get an aggressive territorial response and disadvantaged enough in size and being solitary rather than pack animals to lose that confrontation very consistently.
      It's happening to the dingoes now in a similar fashion.
      Dogs have been in Aus for just under two hundred and fifty years and are outcompeting the dingo by forming larger packs quicker than the dingo and breeding them out of existance, dogs breed twice a year while the dingo breeds once so while dingo blood is still pretty common pure dingo populations are limited back to small, isolated areas like Frasier Island.

    • @psychedashell
      @psychedashell 4 роки тому

      @Deinonychusaurus The ones that were extinct before even the Aboriginals arrived let alone the dingoes?
      Not exactly a likely option.

  • @shelbyrice1014
    @shelbyrice1014 3 роки тому +1

    These have been said to take children

  • @Mommyndvee
    @Mommyndvee 3 роки тому

    😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🤪🤪🤪😵🤕👀

  • @TariqAli-kr4vw
    @TariqAli-kr4vw 4 роки тому

    A good eagle but unfortunately not available here in Pakistan

    • @hakeemt929
      @hakeemt929 2 роки тому +5

      What is your point?
      These eagles are found in Australia and are protected.
      Look what u guys have done to the wildlife in Pakistan..

  • @lorenzoonaca1335
    @lorenzoonaca1335 2 роки тому +1

    I hate seeing these birds in captivity. It’s inhumane

    • @asmodeus304
      @asmodeus304 Рік тому +5

      most raptors in captivity are either falconry birds or disabled and cannot be released. from the presentation im assuming she is disabled-it would be more inhumane to release her. of course there are exceptions but often those exceptions are not with protected species and instead with the exotic pet trade, a pet owl in the house is a cruel cruel thing.

    • @bruhmoment5974
      @bruhmoment5974 Рік тому +1

      this bird might be injured/disabled so she can't survive in the wild

  • @hasansheikh3680
    @hasansheikh3680 3 роки тому

    I dont think these birds should be a protected species. How can this law be changed?

    • @jimbojones806
      @jimbojones806 3 роки тому +12

      Why not?

    • @paul1548
      @paul1548 3 роки тому +15

      @@jimbojones806 Probably wants to export them

    • @alexnico3028
      @alexnico3028 3 роки тому +4

      You scared of birds

    • @scatman9166
      @scatman9166 3 роки тому +9

      Good thing it doesn’t matter what you think

    • @tedgreen3724
      @tedgreen3724 2 роки тому +9

      People like you are the reason they are protected. Leave wedgies alone, they are beautiful apex predators.