The supporters, a Lyrebird (Menura superba) and a Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax), were chosen to be different from the traditional Australian Kangaroo.
The Koori people of Victoria knew Alshain and γ Aquilae as the Black Swan wives of Bunjil (Altair), the Wedge-tailed Eagle.
The two moiety totems of the Wurundjeri people are Bunjil the Eaglehawk and Waarn the Raven, protector of waterways.
The Koori people of Victoria knew β and γ Aquilae as the Black Swan wives of Bunjil (Altair), the Wedge-tailed Eagle.
There are some 140 species of birds in the Gawler Ranges, including the Emu, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo and Singing Honeyeater.
There he worked on Wedge-tailed Eagles, fauna surveys, the environmental impact of wildfire and the conservation value of remnant patches of native vegetation .
The region is home to a variety of wildlife that has adapted to the hot dry conditions including the Wedge-tailed Eagles, Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby and Western Gray Kangaroos of the Flinders Ranges.
It features Dolphin supporters, a crested Wedge-tailed Eagle, the Flannel flower within a shield, and the motto, "Arte et Labore" ("by Skill and Labour").
The New South Wales Police Force emblem contains a Wedge-tailed Eagle in flight, as does the Northern Territory Correctional Services.
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La Trobe University in Melbourne also uses the Wedge-tailed Eagle in its corporate logo and coat of arms.
The club's current logo features a stylised Wedge-tailed Eagle with the words "West Coast Eagles" written underneath.
In the Australian Aboriginal Brabralung/Daungwurrung dialect of the Gunai language, the variant name for the Wongungarra River is Gwannam-o-rook, meaning "eaglehawk".
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According to this tale, Yanko bin Madyan (the name has its origin in a misspelling and or misreading in the Ottoman Turkish writing of the word ‘Nikomedian’) decided to build the city on a ‘wedge shaped’ plot of land, triangled between two sea arms.
Due to his orthodox opinions Äikiä was in confrontation with a number of writers, especially with Arvo Turtiainen, the chairman of the influential literary organization Kiila (the wedge).
Due to the local topography Arnold can never have been a haunt of eagles, because they inhabit areas of rocky outcrops, which have formed cliffs; the nearest such location being Creswell Crags, some 20 miles north-west as the eagle flies, although the fish-eating European White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) could have caught fish in the River Trent, which lies a mere 4 miles south-east of Arnold, on the other side of the Mapperley Plains ridge.
The Atlantic Plain is generally gently dipping undeformed Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediments, with the sedimentary wedge thickening toward the sea, reaching a maximum thickness of about 3 kilometers (10,000 ft) in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
The Schorfheide is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and houses several rare animals like White-tailed Eagle, Greater Spotted Eagle, Osprey, Black Stork, European Beaver and otter.
The fur wedge cap is prominently featured in the Cecil B. DeMille film North West Mounted Police (1940), with the mounted police characters all wearing the cap despite the fact that the movie is set in the summer time.
:Cuneus (Latin for "wedge"; plural, cunei) is also the architectural term applied to the wedge-shaped divisions of the Roman theatre separated by the scalae or stairways; see Vitruvius v. 4.
curvipennis formerly included the Wedge-tailed Sabrewing (C. pampa) of the Yucatán and the Long-tailed Sabrewing (C. excellens) of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec under the English name Wedge-tailed Sabrewing.
(This wedge of additional territory included the sites of St. Paul and Stillwater, and indeed the entire St. Croix Valley.)
On March 7, 2002, Wedge appeared on Fox News’s The O'Reilly Factor and said Judge Murphy coddled defendants and "caused headlines for making disparaging remarks to victims."
It appeared in 1971 with a 351 Cleveland Ford V8 and a low, wedge-shaped body designed by Ghia's Tom Tjaarda.
Malaysia and Thailand has a wedge shaped area 150 km from Kota Bharu, Kelantan and 260 km from the shores of Songkhla, Thailand which is jointly developed by Petronas and its Thailand counterpart.
At the Battle of Pillenreuth in 1450, both the armies of Albrecht Achilles and Nuremberg fought in wedge formation.
It is an arm of the Great Sound, and forms a tapering wedge shape of water between Paget Parish and the peninsula which forms Pembroke Parish, and upon which the capital sits.
Reef triggerfish (also 'rectangular triggerfish', 'wedge-tail triggerfish') Rhinecanthus rectangulus
It is driven, like a wedge, into the frontier mountain system and extends for 150 miles from Jacobabad to Sibi, with nearly as great a breadth at its base on the Sindh frontier.
The arms show the head of a White-tailed Eagle on a blue background, since one of Europe's largest colonies of these birds is found on the island of Nord-Fugløya in the municipality.
The Seljuqs gained an outlet on the Black Sea to match their Mediterranean port at Antalya, and a wedge was driven between the Empire of Trebizond and the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea.
The site is popular with watchers of wetland birds, such as the Japanese White-eye, Red-crested Cardinal, White-rumped Shama, Black-crowned Night Heron, Black-necked Stilt, Nutmeg Mannikin, Black Noddy, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, White-tailed Tropicbird, Red-tailed Tropicbird, Common Myna, Common Waxbill, Cattle Egret and a variety of others.
White-tailed eagle, Greylag goose, barnacle goose, black-throated diver, red-breasted merganser and gadwall are less common, and some of these latter are endangered in the Mälaren area.
A breeding pair of White-tailed Eagles nested on a nearby island in Lough Derg in 2012.
Sea eagles and otters have made a strong comeback and are now very common in and around the fjord.
The Palace Theatre is a building located at the northern end of High Street, Swansea, Wales, recognisable for its distinctive wedge shape.
Nichol was the original choice to play Captain Antilles, before George Lucas considered using Denis Lawson, the actor that portrayed Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy.
The lower Ropotamo is a popular tourist attraction because of the water lilies and the rock formations above the river, on some of which white-tailed eagles nest.
Thomas Wedge married Susannah Couchman of Balsall Temple, Warwick, the daughter of Henry Couchman the noted architect and landscape designer, but they had no children.
With tilt or swing, the DoF is wedge shaped, with the apex of the wedge near the camera, as shown in Figure 5 in the Scheimpflug principle article.
Mediterranean Manhattan: (2 oz. Bourbon, 1 oz Tuaca, .5 oz Simple Syrup, squeezed lemon wedge) Mix over ice, shake and strain; serve up or on the rocks.
The wedge of land that lies north of the Tungabhadra River, between the Tungabhadra and the Krishna, is known as the Raichur Doab.
Historian Walter Lynwood Fleming asserts that the Union/Loyal League was successful in driving a wedge between blacks and Southern whites where little animus had existed, and used methods of political and violent intimidation—similar to those later used by the first Ku Klux Klan—to destroy the influence of Southern whites in politics and with blacks.
Philips-branded sets and most store brands use an offset, with the longer anode (positive lead) being lower and the shorter cathode (negative lead) being higher on the wedge base.
In France, the wedge sole is a speciality of the fishing ports of Cotinière, on the île d'Oléron, and Royan, in Charente-Maritime.
The name "Wedginald" was arrived at after a naming contest on the site, and is intended as a humorous portmanteau of "wedge" (as in a wedge of cheese) and the given name Reginald.
A sheep and cattle farming area, there is still much wildlife including wombats, greater gliders, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Echidna, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, wallabies, Red-bellied Black Snakes, Tiger Snake, Cunningham's Skink and native fish in the Wyanbene Creek and nearby Shoalhaven and Duea rivers.