I think a turkey might be a bit of a load even for a large WTE although they might manage to take it far enough away to devour it on the ground somewhere not far. On the other hand, a chook is no problem. The Sea Eagle which took a chook
here carried it up to the top of Percival Hill.
From: Graeme Clifton <>
Date: Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 1:44 pm
To: "" <>
Cc: Ann Howarth <>, Terry Bell <>, chatline <>
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Wedge tailed eagles and human predation ?
About 34 years ago I was on a property in the Burra valley. The landholder had free range turkeys and one was being attacked by a W T Eagle. It was holding onto the turkeys back but flew off when we approached
without the turkey which, by the way was an adult female.
Graeme Clifton
On Thursday, March 15, 2018, <m("bigpond.com","lindsay_rhonda");">>
wrote:
This does not surprise me either. A few years ago I had a farm at Hoskinstown and my then wife bred and showed Basenji dogs. The dogs were kept in a large run (about
a half acre). One morning I was out in the yard when a shadow passed over me. Looking up I saw a WTE in a dive aimed at one of the dogs. I was able to distract it and it disappeared over the hill. This happened twice. We subsequently lost a dog, we suspect,
to the WTE.
Regards
Lindsay
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Subject: Wedge tailed eagles and human predation ?
I would not be surprised to learn that this story was true. I have written previously to this chatline of the experience with a wedge-tailed eagle by my daughter in the Nimmitabel area many years ago now when she was doing fieldwork for her geology thesis.
She was kneeling down examining a rock formation when she was distracted by a large shadow and looked up to find a large wedged-tailed eagle hovering about 6 feet above her, feet extended, about to grab her head. Fortunately she was able to scare the bird
away but the incident left her quite shaken.
Ann Howarth
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Subject: Wedge tailed eagles and human predation ?
> Some years ago I conversed with a seemingly reliable old fellow from
> Braidwood whose wife at the time ran the local paper.
>
> He swears by this story that took place on a rural property when he
> was about eight and his toddler younger sister under two.
>
> Happily playing close to the homestead, suddenly daylight was blocked
> by the shadow of a huge bird that seemed to appear from nowhere.
> It was just as well that this brave little boy was first to react by
> grabbing his sister by the legs to prevent her from being lifted off
> the ground as the eagle had a firm grip.
>
> The yelling and screaming alerted the childrens’ mother who rushed out
> of the kitchen with broom in hand to drive off the vey determined
> eagle
>
> At the time I remember saying that I had never read or heard anything
> in the media about an incident of this nature.
>
> We should remember that for many years it was widely considered that
> dingos would not attack children. It is likely that over the centuries
> aboriginal infants have been taken.
>
>
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