What does a Wedge-tailed Eagle eat?
Wedge-tailed Eagles are diurnal predators, meaning that they hunt during the day. Generally, they will hunt early in the morning and spend the rest of the day watching over their territory and protecting their feeding grounds from other eagles. They also have home ranges where they will hunt, but which they share with other eagles. Most of a Wedge-tailed Eagle’s diet consits of small ground animals, including mammals and reptiles. Traditionally, this meant wallabies, small kangaroos, snakes, lizards, possums and even smaller birds. Wedge-tailed eagles have even been seen feeding on beach-washed carcasses at Wilsons Promontory National Park . The arrival of Europeans in Australia brought a number of introduced species, which the eagle has added to its diet. These include rabbits, which now make up quite a large part of the diet (in some cases over 90%) and foxes and sheep. Wedge-tailed Eagles were hunted for many years because it was believed that they killed a lot of sheep. It wasn’t u
