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.
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.
@@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
@@macromicro3609 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DLG1jbPrp2Q.html Turnah81 is funny and sets up harmless surprises because he is in the middle of a cat highway haha
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
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
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
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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
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.
@@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...
