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On episode 4 of season 2 of QI, Jeremy Clarkson describes Wedge-tailed Eagles as gorging on roadkill at night, then occasionally being hit by trucks themselves, in gory detail. The Empire of Atlantium, a micronation based in New South Wales, Australia, features the Wedge-tailed Eagle on its seal.
A wedge-tailed eagle can be seen attacking Theodore Seville at the zoo in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
Two wedge-tailed eagles have been seen on Zookeeper (film).
A wedge-tailed eagle is used as the eagle in Alaska that snatches Sandra Bullock's phone in the 2009 romantic comedy "The Proposal".
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