MINI: Wedge Tailed Eagle Facts
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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After Christian was warned about the dangers of the Wedge Tailed Eagle.. we did a deep dive (get it?) on everything Eagles!
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| 0:00.0 | Christian. |
| 0:01.0 | Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | I was walking with my dogs and my wife over the weekend where we're down in Red Hill. |
| 0:09.0 | And some old time had said to me, you want to be careful with that little dog around here. |
| 0:14.0 | We have wedge-tailed eagles. |
| 0:17.0 | And I don't care if an eagle wants to come down and swoop her away with this little yappy dog |
| 0:21.3 | I don't particularly care for him but my wife loves this dog if it was a choice between the eagle flying off with me |
| 0:27.6 | and that little dog she's she's handing me over going he's had a good life he's had a good life |
| 0:33.8 | save my dog please he's little toy poodle even Even the name, toy. It doesn't even sound |
| 0:39.7 | like a dog's name. So anyway, I want to know about what you knew about these wedge-tailed |
| 0:44.3 | eagles. Do they really fly away with small dogs? And there was even rumors of small kangaroos, |
| 0:49.4 | joys and that they come down and swoop on. |
| 0:54.3 | Did you know that the Australian wedge-tailed eagle is the fifth biggest eagle in the world? |
| 1:03.0 | 2.8 metres, the wings. |
| 1:05.1 | That is massive. |
| 1:06.6 | The bald eagle is at number four, white-tailed eagle in Russia, number three. |
| 1:11.4 | At number two, the harpy eagle. |
| 1:13.5 | And number one, of course it's Russian. |
| 1:15.8 | It's to Stella's Sea Eagle. |
| 1:20.1 | However, the wedge-tailed eagle here in Australia is the only eagle in the world |
| 1:24.2 | knowing to attack bloody owl hand gliders, paragliders and drones. |
| 1:29.1 | It can fly up to... |
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