{"id":2750,"date":"2013-06-01T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2013-06-01T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T11:53:00","slug":"wedge-tailed-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/01\/wedge-tailed-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedge Tailed Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130601-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2748 alignright\" alt=\"Wedge Tailed Eagle\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130601-005-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130601-005-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130601-005.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is the largest bird of prey in Australia and one of the largest in the world. \u00a0The wedge tailed eagle has a wingspan of 2.3m or over 7.5 feet, the largest recorded was over 9ft! \u00a0No wonder the guinea fowl were making such a noise when it appeared just after midday. \u00a0The guineas have different alarm calls depending on whether it is a fox, a snake or a bird of prey. \u00a0I know the difference now, so I always grab the camera when they start shouting about an eagle. \u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/not-so-little-eagle\/\">Little Eagle<\/a> we spotted in February was half the size and that looked pretty big at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The scientific name\u00a0for the wedge tailed eagle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsinbackyards.net\/species\/Aquila-audax\">Aquila Audax<\/a>,\u00a0translates as bold eagle and groups of eagles can attack and kill larger animals like kangaroos. \u00a0Their fearsome reputation led to over 100,000 being killed for a bounty in the 40 years up to 1968; \u00a0they were blamed for killing lambs. \u00a0They can live for up to 20 years and will pairbond for life. \u00a0The females are bigger than the males and can weigh over 5kg.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wedge-tailed_Eagle\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0<em>They are highly aerial, soaring for hours on end without wingbeat or effort, regularly reaching 1,800 metres. \u00a0The purpose of this very high flight is unknown. Their keen eyesight extends into the\u00a0infrared\u00a0and\u00a0ultraviolet\u00a0bands. This helps them spot prey and allows them to see rising\u00a0thermals, which they can use to gain altitude while expending little energy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the largest bird of prey in Australia and one of the largest in the world. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","category-birds","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130601-005.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}