Aquila audax
Falconiformes - Accipitridae - Hawks, eagles & Old world vultures
Distribution: Australia, S New Guinea
Habitat: Open forest, woodland, scrub, savanna, plains & deserts
Diet: Mammals, birds, reptiles and carrion
Breeding: Large platform of sticks, 70-90cm wide, 30-80cm deep, lined with green leaves. 2-73 m above the ground in tallest available tree.
Clutch size: 1-3 eggs
Incubation: 42-48 days
Fledge age: 79-95 days
Maturity: 3 years
View International Centre for Birds of Prey protocol file >
Protocol established 1988
Used on 2 individuals
Success rate 100.00%
Rating
Protocol used for at least 5 individuals with over 75% success | |
Used by 2 or more institutions | |
Points on minimizing imprinting | |
Birds went on to produce fertile eggs | |
Birds went on to successfully parent rear |
Warning points
None
Please keep us up-to-date and contact us with your own updates or new protocols for rearing the Wedge-tailed Eagle.
Breeding the Wedge-tailed eagle at East Berlin Zoo. DIETER MINNEMANN. International Zoo Yearbook. Vol 23. Pages 59 - 62
Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2. New World Vultures to Guineafowl. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. 1994