NOUN | a wedge-tailed eagle | wedge-tailed eagles | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The arms, uniquely in Australia, incorporate all of the territory's floral, animal and bird emblems: the Sturt's desert rose ("Gossypium sturtianum"), red kangaroo ("Megaleia rufa") and wedge-tailed eagle ("Aquila audax").
- The grey currawong has been recorded harassing larger birds such as the wedge-tailed eagle, square-tailed kite and Australian hobby.
- Aggressive and territorial, the willie wagtail will often harass much larger birds such as the laughing kookaburra and wedge-tailed eagle.
- The West Coast Eagles AFL football club from Western Australia uses a stylised wedge-tailed eagle as their club emblem.
- The La Trobe University Coat of Arms incorporates the scallop shells from the La Trobe family bearings, the Australian wedge-tailed eagle to represent Australia, and sprigs of heath to represent Victoria.
- Larger species include the wedge-tailed eagle, greater sooty owl, sulphur-crested cockatoo and superb lyrebird.
- Black cockatoos, a rare turquoise parrot and a wedge-tailed eagle can be found circling the surrounding cliffs in search of prey.
- Bunjil, also spelt Bundjil, is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being, often depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle in Australian Aboriginal mythology of some of the Aboriginal peoples of Victoria.
- Eaglehawk is another name for the wedge-tailed eagle.
- The Koori people of Victoria knew Beta and Gamma Aquilae as the black swan wives of "Bunjil" (Altair), the wedge-tailed eagle.
- Native predators of the woylie include the wedge-tailed eagle ("Aquila audax"), a large raptor thought to have been a significant influence on their mortality.
- The wedge tailed eagle was chosen due to its "keenness of sight and ability to roam over large distances".
- The You Yangs are home to a geoglyph of Bunjil, a Dreamtime creator deity to some of the Indigenous people of Victoria, depicted as an wedge-tailed eagle.
- The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine was one such program that caused extinction, whilst the Tasmanian devil, spotted quoll, and Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle all became seriously threatened by bounties.
- It features heraldic dolphin supporters, a wedge-tailed eagle rising from a mural crown as the crest, a flannel flower within a green shield, and the Latin motto, "Arte et Labore" ("by Skill and Labour").
- Surmounting the badge is a wedge-tailed eagle. "Per Ardua Ad Astra" is attributed with the meaning "Through Adversity to the Stars" and is from Sir Henry Rider Haggard's novel "The People of the Mist".
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