Comments on: What is it? Wedge-tailed eagle? Kite? http://las.new-england.net.au/2006/02/14/wedge-tailed-eagle/ A pictorial journal of life in rural Australia Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:52:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joy http://las.new-england.net.au/2006/02/14/wedge-tailed-eagle/comment-page-1/#comment-6472 Joy Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:41:19 +0000 http://las.new-england.net.au/2006/02/14/wedge-tailed-eagle/#comment-6472 Looks like a Whistling Kite - definitely not a wedge tail but also a large and beautiful bird. Wedge tails have a very distinctive point to the tail and a different under wing pattern of feathering. Birds seem to know just how to disappear as soon as you turn a camera on them :-) Looks like a Whistling Kite – definitely not a wedge tail but also a large and beautiful bird. Wedge tails have a very distinctive point to the tail and a different under wing pattern of feathering. Birds seem to know just how to disappear as soon as you turn a camera on them :-)

]]> By: gordon http://las.new-england.net.au/2006/02/14/wedge-tailed-eagle/comment-page-1/#comment-426 gordon Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:04:35 +0000 http://las.new-england.net.au/2006/02/14/wedge-tailed-eagle/#comment-426 Indeed. I think I should give up trying to identify creatures that I don't recognise - in this case I've always assumed that the tail was wedge shaped (if you look at it from rear to front). The issue becomes one of "what is it?" It was large - say a 2m wingstpan. The one I disturbed on the ground would have been getting on for a metre long. All measurements are approximate - it all happened very quickly. I can't think of anything else that big. Indeed. I think I should give up trying to identify creatures that I don’t recognise – in this case I’ve always assumed that the tail was wedge shaped (if you look at it from rear to front).

The issue becomes one of “what is it?” It was large – say a 2m wingstpan. The one I disturbed on the ground would have been getting on for a metre long. All measurements are approximate – it all happened very quickly. I can’t think of anything else that big.

]]> By: Tim Giles http://las.new-england.net.au/2006/02/14/wedge-tailed-eagle/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Tim Giles Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:55:06 +0000 http://las.new-england.net.au/2006/02/14/wedge-tailed-eagle/#comment-427 Looking at the photo I am unsure whether it is, in fact, a wedgie. The tail does not seem to have that distinctive diamond shape. I, too, have the same problem here in Queensland, the Eagle always drifts away as you get the camera gear out! Looking at the photo I am unsure whether it is, in fact, a wedgie.
The tail does not seem to have that distinctive diamond shape.
I, too, have the same problem here in Queensland, the Eagle always drifts away as you get the camera gear out!

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