Territories are established with aerial shows, which can include excessive circling by one or each of pair, generally interspersed with flight rolls and talon presenting. In Tasmania, territories held a imply of 1.4 nests. Nests are usually lined with green leaves and twigs, a typical practice in accipitrids. Ideally the nest is situated at 12 to 30 m (39 to 98 ft) above the ground on a lateral branch or predominant fork of lone or forest tree; in taller timber, nests can be as a lot as seventy five m (246 ft) high to the other extreme down in lower ground and even on rocks or floor timber are scarce. Most of the large falcons, including peregrine, brown and black falcons, and at instances massive owls nest in unused or abandoned wedge-tailed eagle nests. Allopreening occurs sometimes between pairs but is seldom observed, though at instances has been considered a “regular” a part of the courtship process. Cartwheeling is usually uncommon but in a single case, three immatures mock dived at each other, two birds interlocked and cartwheeled a number of occasions before breaking away.
No cartwheeling or talon grappling has been reported between members of a mated pair, but occasionally reported as used towards intruding eagles. Due to the formidable aerial assault of the peregrine, it may be the only raptor apart from the white-bellied sea eagle that wedge-tailed eagles could avoid nesting near. Occasionally they could also be injured and even killed through intra- and interspecies territorial conflicts and mobbing by different birds of prey, especially stooping peregrine falcons which have successfully knocked wedge-tailed eagles out of the sky, with a pressure known to kill both golden and bald eagles in different components of the world. Territorial assaults by male wedge-tailed eagles could also be against any encountered intruding eagles, including each male and feminine intruders, whereas female eagles engage in less territorial assaults and when they do, it is solely towards different females. The quantity of Eucalyptus tree species utilized by wedge-tailed eagles is extremely numerous and finally the species appear to have no sturdy overall preferences regarding tree species, extra importantly seeking a given tree of ample height and considerable broadness. Detailed study in Western Australia discovered nest heights were higher in Mediterranean scrubland at 4 to sixteen m (thirteen to 52 ft) against 2 to 6 m (6.6 to 19.7 ft) in the arid zone, however nest top appeared to not have bearing on occupancy or success, territoriality stored the population regulated within the habitats.
In just a few research totally different areas of latest South Wales, the mean nest peak was from 5.2 to 21.7 m (17 to 71 ft) and had been usually comparatively near human growth. With very few exceptions, animals respire aerobically. Within the Perth area, it was projected that the imply home range was about 36 km2 (14 sq mi). In often particularly arid Western Australia, mean nest heights had been reportedly lower, averaging at 6.5 and 15.5 m (21 and 51 ft). In Western Australia, arid areas had a nearest neighbour distance of 5.32 km (3.31 mi) while these nesting in mesic areas had a distance of 4.88 km (3.03 mi). Generally talking in woodland or forest edge areas, nests tend to be bigger, whereas these in sparser, more arid areas are likely to have characteristically smaller nests, as they’ve lesser access to nest building materials. Wedge-tailed eagles are apex predators and have no effectively-documented predators, although presumably they’ve some nest predators, possible including ravens and currawongs, especially when displaced by human disturbance from their nests.
Sometimes the wedge-tailed eagle will readily rob numerous different raptors of their prey, together with little eagles, white-bellied sea eagles and brown falcons (Falco berigora). Four research discovered the diameter of nests to common from as little as 1.1 m (3.6 ft) and as much as 1.9 m (6.2 ft) and in depth from as little as 1 m (3.Three ft) to as much as 1.Three m (4.3 ft). Resurvey efforts a dozen years later in Fleurieu Peninsula discovered a more populous inhabitants, leading to a house vary estimated at 32.1 km2 (12.Four sq mi) with some energetic nests as close as 1.5 km (0.93 mi) apart. Within the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia through the early to mid 2000s, there was a pair per fifty three km2 (20 sq mi), energetic nest sites were 6.6 km (4.1 mi) apart, while the average home range around the nest is 34 km2 (thirteen sq mi) roughly. In western Australia, breeding depends upon food and through drought durations there may be no nesting for as much as four years. At Fowlers Gap, there have been 9-10 pairs per 390 km2 (one hundred fifty sq mi). Several reported densities of 3-6 pairs per a hundred km2 (39 sq mi), others of 7-12 pairs per 100 km2 (39 sq mi).