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eagle hawk n. A large bird of prey, usually the wedge-tailed eagle wedge-tailed.

1805 Sydney Gaz. 16 June 3/1 An eagle hawk rose from the spot with a large viper secured within its talons.   1827 Monitor (Sydney) 29 Oct. 727/2 The Eagles (improperly called Eagle Hawks) in the interior, are surprisingly bold.   1842 J. Gould Birds of Aust. (1848) I. Pl. 1, Aquila fucosa  ..  Wedge-tailed Eagle… Eagle Hawk, Colonists of New South Wales.   1846 C.P. Hodgson Reminisc. Aust. 164 The Eagle Hawk is a monster indeed, the monarch of the feathered tribes.   1856 H.B. Stoney Vic. 212 In the interior, the wedge-tailed eagle, or eagle-hawk, is well known as destructive to lambs.   1896 F.G. Aflalo Sketch Nat. Hist. Aust. 143 The Wedge-Tailed Eagle (Aquila audax), or, ‘Eagle-Hawk’ of Victoria  ..  is easily approached when gorged from a recent feed.   1905 A.B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 69 He’d never make one of them angels, With faces as white as chalk, All wool to the toes like hoggets, And wings like an eagle-hawk.   1928 M.E. Fullerton Austral. Bush 122 The wedge-tailed eagle, and the eagle hawk, a smaller bird.   1934 W.A. Osborne Visitor to Aust. 82 The wedge-tailed eagle or eagle-hawk is a magnificent creature.   1945 C. Barrett Austral. Bird Life 28 Our noblest bird of prey, the eaglehawk as it is popularly called, has very few friends excepting bird lovers.   1950 Wild Life Aug. 354/2 Wedge-tailed eagles frequent the light timber on the edge of the Sand Kingdom; there, their six-foot nests may be a bare 20 feet from the ground because sheep and rabbits have killed the larger trees. Although, under the name of ‘eaglehawk’, he has a reputation for killing lambs, in three years I was unable to get any evidence of this.   1978 O. White Silent Reach 122 A pair of hunting eagle hawks, soaring, dipping and wheeling above the expanse of bleached buffel grass.   1993 E. Crawford Over my Tracks 2 My mum  ..  her totem was eagle hawk, so we're all bird people.   2004 Austral. (Sydney) 2 Sept. 14/4 Here is a dreamlike and deeply spiritual quality in his seductive, digitally manipulated images  ..  in the splayed wings of the black bird, the eagle hawk or crow.