A fractured wedge-tailed eaglet found grounded in Doreen, Victoria was rehabilitated and returned to its parents’ nest, a strategy backed by raptor biology and conservation practice.

In a dramatic photo, an Instagram user in Australia captured a close encounter between a boy and a very large bird when a wedge-tailed eagle grabbed the youth’s head with its talons. The incident— ...

With a life span of about 20 years, wedge-tailed eagles mate for life. They’ll re-use a nest for years, adding more and more sticks each breeding season until they reach huge proportions – almost 2m ...

An eagle twice the size of the modern-day apex predator the wedge-tailed eagle, which soared over southern Australia more than 60,000 years ago, had a wingspan up to 3m wide and powerful talons wide ...