#Wedgetail Eagle

[redrcs]

Out in the back blocks. Eagles, roadkill and heat haze. Somewhere near Bourketown.

[southernimages]

Khaiserstuhl CP, Wildlife in Wine Country

Dear Reader: The predatory bird circles high in the morning sky then swoops down low to within a hundred metres of me. A Wedge-tailed Eagle, Australia’s largest bird of prey. Wedge-tailed Eagle hunting I am heading for the Kaiserstuhl Conservation Park, a twenty minute drive from Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley and around 90 kms from Adelaide. Kaiser Stuhl was a popular winery, now incorporated…

[thebirdsofaus]

The first bird in the book (once past the index, an alphabetical list of "subscribers", the division of all birds into genus and location and the inclusion of a surprising number of anecdotal letters about birds from subscribers), is the Wedge-tailed Eagle.

"This noble bird is so universally spread over the southern portion of Australia, that it is quite unnecessary for me to enter more minutely into detail respecting the extent of its range, than to say that it is equally distributed over the whole of the country from Swan River on the west to Moreton Bay on the east; it is also as numerous in Van Diemen’s Land, and on all the larger islands in Bass’s Straits..." "In all probability it will hereafter be found to extend its range as far towards the tropics in the southern hemisphere as the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaëta) does in the northern: the two birds are, in fact, beautiful analogues of each other in their respective habitats, and doubtless perform similar offices..."

" its tremendous stoop and powerful grasp, in fact, carry inevitable destruction to its victim, be it ever so large and formidable. The breeders of sheep find in this bird an enemy which commits extensive ravages among their lambs, and consequently in its turn it is persecuted unrelentingly by the shepherds of the stock-owners, who employ every artifice in their power to effect its extirpation... The tracts of untrodden ground and the vastness of the impenetrable forests will, however, for a long series of years to come afford it an asylum, secure from the inroads of the destroying hand of man; still with every one waging war upon it, its numbers must necessarily be considerably diminished."

"The adults have the head, throat, and all the upper and under surface blackish brown, stained on the edges and extremities of many of the feathers, particularly the wing and upper tail-coverts with pale brown; back and sides of the neck rusty-red; irides hazel; cere and space round the eye yellowish white; bill yellowish horn-colour, passing into black at the tip; feet light yellow.

"The young have the head and back of the neck deep fawn-colour, striated with lighter; all the feathers of the upper surface largely tipped and stained with fawn and rusty-red; tail indistinctly barred near the extremity; throat and breast blackish brown, each feather largely tipped with rufous; the abdomen blackish brown."

[natpashdesign]

Sky studies.

[tyers]

[kiunlo]

Willie Wagtail! Or a Blue Fairy Wren (with his Ladies)! Or a Purple Crowned Fairy Wren (they largely survived last year's floods and are MATING)! Or Galahs! Or Magpies! Or a Wedgetail Eagle!

I like birds 🐦🦩🦤🦆🐣

sorry this took forever to actually get to your ask lol. i was initially going to draw all of the birds (because i love all those birds and i wanted to draw them all) but if i did that it would've taken too long (cries). the wings are whatever. everything else i'm proud of.

drawn on my phone w/ stylus, started it yesterday, finished it today.

[crabanarchy]

I miss my shitty small town for the birds. You could see mynahs and spoonbills and sea eagles and wedgetails and huge ravens and swamphens and galahs and rosellas and black cockatoos and finches and fruit doves and fairy wrens and cormorants and oystercatchers and pelicans and i could go on. Now i only see pigeons. And don't get me wrong I love pigeons but they're part of a broader pallete. They're supposed to be members of the community

[soup-mother]

do u have a favorite Australian bird. I am a huge fan of the cassowary personally. saw one once and it was the most bizarrely beautiful creature I’ve encountered

i love Yolla/Shearwaters and sea eagles, but i also love musk lorikeets, wedgetailed eagles and tawny frogmouths :)

i saw a cassewary once at a zoo it was sorta just chilling menacingly

[plutonium-ooc]

i like basing my winged ocs off of certain birds }::::D ex. laxlat being based on a harpy eagle, wedgetail eagle and wandering albatross. very big, very agile, very efficient!!! though if i had to draw her as just one it'd be the albatross because she has a tendancy to look at people like

on account of Her Bigness

Blazir is similar, being based primarily off the wandering albatross, but has influences of gyrfalcon and white swan instead because she, uh, didn't survive the war to enter exodus and thus lived her whole life in the northern continent adapted to the cold instead. and by "didn't survive the war" i mean she ended it and herself at the same time with the ol' reliable (murder-suicide)

[penelobunny]

Wedgetail Eagle Australia

[redrcs]

Stunt plane

Illawarra airshow

[goannafr]

wedgetailed eagle so cool so epic american bald guys got nothing on it

[southernimages]

Gorge Wildlife Park

Dear Reader: Capturing images in the wild is one of the most exhilarating challenges a photographer faces. Each image evokes poignant memories of the location and circumstances under which it was shot. However, there is also a place for pictures taken in zoos and wildlife parks. Wedge-tailed Eagle At the Gorge Wildlife Park, one can get close enough to discern the fine details of animal…

[usafphantom2]

BAE Systems receives extension of the support contract for the Australian E-7A Wedgetail

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 21/07/2023 - 14:00 in Military

BAE Systems Australia will provide Electronic Warfare Systems for the Australian Air Force's E-7A Wedgetail aircraft fleet until 2028, after winning a two-year contract extension.

Under the two-year contract, BAE Systems will support the Electronic Support Measures (ESM) and Electronic Warfare Self-Protection (EWSP) systems for Boeing Defense Australia under Wedgetail's Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) program.

Wedgetail is a critical component of the Australian Defense Force (ADF)'s ability to carry out joint air, land and sea missions in real time.

BAE Systems has been providing lift support to the Wedgetail fleet since its entry into service in 2011 and has played a key role in ensuring aircraft availability and readiness for mission.

BAE Systems will provide engineering, field services, supply, maintenance and management support for the ESM and EWSP systems in the RAAF fleet of six E-7A Wedgetail aircraft at the Edinburgh RAAF Base from the company's Edinburgh Parks facilities.

The achievement of the contract is based on BAE Systems Australia's long-standing relationship with RAAF, which extends to manufacturing, maintenance and support work under the Hawk Lead-In Fighter and F-35 programs.

BAE Systems Australia's defense delivery managing director, Andrew Gresham, said: “For more than 50 years, our company has collaborated with ADF to provide world-class electronic warfare systems and this achievement reinforces our position as a leader in this field. Our dedicated team has a deep knowledge of the Wedgetail platform and we are committed to ensuring that it remains ready for the mission at all times. We look forward to working closely with Boeing and RAAF to continue offering this essential capability."

Tags: Military AviationBAE SystemsBoeing E-7 WedgetailRAAF - Royal Australian Air Force/Australian Royal Air Force

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Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Daytona Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work around the world of aviation.

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[charlesandmartine]

Saturday 4th March 2023

Packed up, ready and sad to leave Winton we made plans to complete our somewhat limited education on dinosaurs this morning. Our journey today doubled back along the Matilda Highway firstly to Longreach and then onto Barcaldine at which point the route diverges from the outward journey towards our final motoring destination, Rockhampton. But first of all we needed to call in at the Australian Age of the Dinosaurs Museum and laboratories. We have seen the site of the stampede, now we needed to know a bit more about the research they do.

The museum is 11km off the Matilda Highway and because it is in the middle of nowhere (woop woop) the site also has a dark skies observation point. The building is new and very modern with some government funding although the digs and research labs are all privately owned and on private land. The program began with a tour around the labs containing a large collection of Dinosaur bones unearthed within a 150km radius of Winton. They are mainly Sauropod genus but also Theropod. The impression we get is that it's early days for the Australian Paleontologists and because these animals exist nowhere else in the world there is still much to learn and identify. Almost all finds are from the Cretaceous era with only one or two from the Jurassic period. This is important since Jurassic specimens found will be from a time when Australia was joined to the rest of Asia. The Sauropod bones are from three discrete animals from different sites and are rare in that there's a goodly amount of each animal remaining. We saw and spoke to researchers painstakingly cleaning fossils to uncover the actual bone. A really interesting find, a Confractosuchus Sauroktonos which is an ancestor of today's crocodile but from 98 million years ago and astonishingly its last lunch was found by it, a chicken sized Ornithopod. I guess that was finger licking good. We were then taken to a further display of the finished cleaned up set of Sauropod skeletons and a film which was able to identify the remains found and how they construct to identify the animal itself. Extremely interesting especially knowing that this is all so new but has been expedited essentially by a team of experts alongside a group of very willing volunteers. Such a good use of our time and delighted with their excellent professional presentation techniques which explained a complex subject in an easy to understand methodology.

Our journey progressed to Longreach for luncheon and a top up of supplies from the IGA there, and then on to Ilfracombe. As in Devon, they also have a Combe Martin as well. Now some would say that Ilfracombe could have been a little dull since it is a simple ruler straight road through the little hamlet, but this would be to ignore the mile long line of old machinery on the roadside. An eclectic mix of trucks, farm machinery, ploughs, agricultural steam engines, seed hoppers and so the list goes on. Combined with small museums with displays of life in the 19th century, accounts of fires resulting in loss of property and the old station building all in all transformed the village into something quite special.

Soon after we arrived at our Motel for the night and Martine took a plunge in the borehole fed swimming pool followed by a bit of a chicken stir-fry and a bottle of SB. Perfick.

On route we had managed a couple of kangaroos, 4 or 5 Emus and a couple of Wedgetail Eagles. Not a bad score all in all.

[scorittanius]

i find it very funny how while they've absolutely decimated the landscape, rabbits and hares have had one major benefit- the wedgetails fuckin LOVE eating them and it's SO FUN to watch one on the prowl. especially if the rabbit or hare is very large and close, because then you get to see how big the eagle really is, and its very long legs, and then boom, the rabbit's gone and maybe some gangly lookin baby eagles get a nice meal