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Missing a ganeration in the worry-about-the-kids stakes - Sep 14, 2008 Townsville Bulletin,And if a wedge-tailed eagle can carry off a lamb then why not a toddler? Not so woolly, I grant you, but still reasonably easy to hang on to. Magnificent eagles – keep their home safe - Sep 2, 2008 Yorke Peninsula Country Times,Yorke Peninsula can lay claim to being home to two of the largest of these birds of prey -- the Wedge-tailed Eagle (the most common of the world's largest Bulldust and boomerangs - Sep 17, 2008 Stuff.co.nz,A wedge-tailed eagle soars overhead. The sun blazes. Ice in our esky doesn't stand a chance. High on the rocks we look back on the town, a frontier outpost Lion Kings - Aug 30, 2008 RedOrbit,He points out a wedge-tailed eagle soaring in the distance, a gigantic bird of prey with a wingspan of at least two metres. I soon become aware that we're Eagle ready to spread its wings at Taronga - Jul 30, 2008 Daily Telegraph,By Evelyn Yamine A WEDGE-tailed eagle and six young red-tailed black cockatoos will join Taronga Zoo's popular bird show. Noname the Eagle, and three male New lake to flood out eagles - Aug 12, 2008 The Canberra Times,University of New England bird expert Stephen Debus said he was not informed of plans to dam the Molonglo River and flood wedge-tailed eagle nests and Is the fox in charge of the hens? - Aug 11, 2008 The Canberra Times,Meanwhile, hundreds of casuarinas will be destroyed by a housing development proposed for the Molonglo Valley, and wedge-tailed eagle nests will be flooded Five Lives Liberated For Austrian Prisoners & ELF Target Pulp Mill - Aug 1, 2008 Infoshop NewsIt would bring the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed eagle, the Spotted Tail Quoll and the Giant Fresh-Water Crayfish to the brink of extinction[2]. Town winning the corella battle - Apr 11, 2008 ABC Online,..."The peregrine falcon is the corella's main predator in life and also the wedge-tailed eagle that Richard's got." Mr Willcock says an eagle named Hummer may Public Feedback on Three Capes Track Welcomed - Apr 1, 2008 Tasmanian Government Media Releases (press release),...“In March, aerial surveys for wedge-tailed eagle and sea eagle nesting sites took place, and were timed to avoid the breeding season. The flight mechanic for eagle force - 22 Feb 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,WITH six sets of wedge-tailed eagle wings, Gillian Hogendyk's chest freezer is a spare-parts shop for Australia's greatest bird of prey. Cockies not so rapt as Zorro flies in - Feb 14, 2008 The Age,Zorro the wedge-tailed eagle has been enlisted to stop cockatoos damaging the Arts Centre's spire lights. Video Animal rights groups blast zoo for Australia arts centre employs eagle, falcon guards - Feb 14, 2008 Reuters India,A Wedge-tailed eagle named "Zorro", named after the legendary swordsman, was tethered on Friday to the 163-metre roof spire of the Melbourne Arts Centre Eagle guards Melbourne landmark - Feb 15, 2008 BBC News,Staff at a Melbourne landmark have resorted to unusual methods to try to prevent damage to their building - a wedge-tailed eagle called Zorro. Melbourne landmark uses eagle to deter pesky cockatoos: official - Feb 14, 2008 AFPTwo birds, a wedge-tailed eagle with a two-metre (6.5 foot) wingspan called Zorro and a peregrine falcon named Bibi, have been selected as the protectors. Zorro keeps the lights on in Australia - Feb 14, 2008 Earthtimes,Sydney - The managers of Melbourne's Art Centre have turned to Zorro the wedge-tailed eagle and Bibi the peregrine falcon to frighten away lesser birds that Island debut for birds - Jan 30, 2008 Kangaroo Island Islander,Selena is matched by the equally impressive but better tempered wedge-tailed eagle Jedda. The show includes education about habitat, free-flight Brown's logging ban bid fails - Nov 29, 2007 The Mercury,The judge said logging was likely to have a "significant impact" on three endangered species that live in the forest -- the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, Blue Mountains, silver lining - Nov 18, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,Across the valley, perhaps 7 kilometres as the wedge-tailed eagle flies, lies the natural rock formation known as Ruined Castle. We walked there today, Plan for a greener future - Nov 13, 2007 Daily Telegraph,...(the primary source for the pulp mill) goes ahead, the risk of Tasmania's giant wedge-tailed eagle going to extinction there rises from 65% to 99%. Conditions add millions to Gunns' bill - Oct 3, 2007 The Australian,Senator Brown said it was particularly galling that such efforts were being undertaken to save one wedge-tailed eagle near the site, while experts estimate Birds facing threat this summer - Oct 28, 2007 Brisbane Times,Ms Colborne said all species were at risk, including the Wedge-tailed Eagle, the Gouldian Finch and the Helmeted Honeyeater. Already, school children in Conditions for the Tamar Valley pulp mill - Oct 3, 2007 Melbourne Herald Sun,Seventeen conditions relating to protection of both listed threatened and migratory species, including measures to protect the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle, Tamar Valley pulp mill: Full conditions - Oct 3, 2007 Daily Telegraph,Construction must not commence, within defined distances of a nest site, during the breeding season of the Wedge-tailed Eagle. Work is to stop if a new nest Fatboy spin: but Stuey's sure he'll be worth the weight - Oct 30, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,He seemed more mindful of the nearby eight-year-old promotional wedge-tailed eagle than shaking hands with destiny. "I'm very calm about it all," he said. Woo of the outback - Oct 5, 2007 The Australian,Which meant he couldn’t get a shot of small birds bravely attacking a wedge-tailed eagle unconcernedly surfing the thermals below us. Bedevilled in Tasmania - Oct 4, 2007 The Australian,Yesterday, the only wedge around was the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle and its guarantee of protection from the proposed Gunns pulp mill in the Tamar valley. Pulp fiction a balm for voters - Oct 4, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,Yet this is the firm that Turnbull has approved to build a mill that threatens endangered and protected species including the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, Wonderful way to call your Bluff - Oct 20, 2007 Advertiser Adelaide,...ringneck parrots, galahs, elegant parrots, red-capped robin, short-tailed glasswrens, whistling kites, ravens, and the magnificent wedge-tailed eagle. Conservationists Lose Battle to Stop Tasmanian Pulp Mill - Oct 5, 2007 Environment News Service...including measures to protect the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, the Tasmanian devil, fur seals, whales, dolphins and rare native vegetation. Labor backs pulp mill - Oct 4, 2007 The Age,...■Managing the impact on the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, with restrictions on construction during breeding season. There will be strict monitoring, A cleaner mill, but the environmental proof is years away - Oct 4, 2007 The Age,...business enterprise and environmental imperatives can co-exist in peace and harmony — the piping cry of the wedge-tailed eagle in counterpoint with the Marginal chickens coming south to roost - Oct 4, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,..."This was his moment to make a stand for forests, for the endangered wedge-tailed eagle, for the wildlife, for the fish, for the health of ordinary people, Green light for mill - Oct 4, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,..."In those forests lives the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, which faces a 99.9 per cent likelihood of extinction if its habitat is destroyed and this pulp Where there's a mill ... - Oct 17, 2007 Guardian Unlimited,...(the primary source for the pulp mill) goes ahead, the risk of Tasmania's giant wedge-tailed eagle going to extinction there rises from 65% to 99%. Gunns mill approval condemns forests and ignores climate change ... - Oct 9, 2007 Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription),Native forests are critical habitat for endangered species, such as the Wedge-tailed Eagle, a species that scientists say faces a 98 per cent chance of Greens vow to defeat pulp mill - Oct 4, 2007 North Queensland Register,An extra 24 conditions relating to effluent management and threatened species such as the wedge-tailed eagle and the Tasmanian devil were imposed. Turnbull seeks more comment on pulp mill - 20 Aug 2007 NEWS.com.au,...construction of the mill must not commence within defined distances of a nesting site during the breeding season of the wedge-tailed eagle. Court appeal against logging judgement begins - Aug 12, 2007 ABC Online,...in the forest was illegal because the company had failed to protect three endangered species, including the wedge tailed eagle and the stag beetle. A Great Barrier Reef on land breeds hope for threatened eco-systems - Jul 30, 2007 Guardian Unlimited,A wedge-tailed eagle, Australia's largest bird of prey, soars overhead as kangaroos and wallabies move through the bush, frogs chorus from somewhere damp in Flying high in the Top End - Aug 6, 2007 Brisbane Times,Atop it stood a wedge-tailed eagle which refused to move as we slowed to a crawl and passed within a car's width of it, its dark eyes staring unblinking at Direct Action Against Deforestation in Tasmania Nov 10, 2006 The Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle - Australia's largest bird of prey - is an iconic and critically endangered subspecies with fewer than 1,000 individuals left ... - Infoshop News Aussie Eagle flies in for the Gill Oct 31, 2006 HERE’S Aussie spinner Stuart MacGill at Sydney Cricket Ground with his version of Dickie Bird — a massive wedge-tailed eagle. ... - The Sun, Logging protester vows to stay aloft Mar 24, 2006 ...refused to budge. His supporters say he will stay there until the safety of two wedge-tailed eagle nests are guaranteed. A logging ... ABC Online, International Protest Over Illegal Tasmanian Logging Mar 7, 2006 ...and are home to the grand old-growth Eucalypts (the world tallest hardwood trees) and many unique & endangered species, such as the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle ... Green Building Press, Tasmania listed as extinction hotspot Mar 7, 2006 Mr Law said current land clearing practices were placing in peril the wedge-tailed eagle, spotted-tail quoll, swift parrot and broad-toothed stag beetle. ... The Mercury, [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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