Watch 3 Massive Eagles Rain Down From the Sky Like Hellfire Missiles at a Kangaroo

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Are you ready to take the ride of your life? Specifically, a ride that takes you up to speeds of 100 miles per hour? Wait, stop to read that again. That’s correct, a 100-mile-per-hour ride! With something that reaches Nascar speeds, we have your attention and can quite literally dive right down into it. 

There are three different playing fields in the wild. We have fights in the air, fights on land, and fights in the ocean. Fights in the air, such as between an owl preying on a small finch. Fights on land, such as a hyena entering lion territory, and fights in the ocean, such as between an octopus and an eel. 

However, what happens when these fights cross playing fields? In the video shown below, the air speed demon, the eagle, is seen fighting with the land hopper, the kangaroo. Let’s see what happens when those playing fields are evened. 

Three Massive Eagles Target a Lone Kangaroo

The video posted below shows three massive eagles flying above. The video camera shakes quite a lot during this video, but we promise you it is well worth it once it gets to the action. The eagles are seen flying in a circular formation. And once they are doing that, we know it means they have found something below.

But, unlike the normal mice or rabbits that eagles will go for, these eagles had something a bit larger in mind. At this time, we now see a large kangaroo! As the eagles fly down, we actually see this kangaroo fighting back! At approximately 1:25-1:28 seconds, we see this fight in full swing!

This kangaroo was not about to become a victim of these three large 100-mile-per-hour predators. Imagine the 300 miles per hour of pressure this kangaroo felt. But, just like eagles have their speed, kangaroos can pack quite a punch too. Let’s see how big kangaroos are!

How Big are Kangaroos?

Kangaroos can vary in size anywhere from 40-200 pounds. Not all kangaroos can be intimidating based on their size. But, for the larger ones, they most definitely can be. The largest kangaroo ever recorded was a male red kangaroo who was 8.2 feet tall!

The size of that kangaroo would quite literally tower over a full-grown adult male human. But, this was of no consequence to these three massive eagles. They knew they could take him on.

Is It Normal Behavior for Eagles to Attack Kangaroos?

Yes, it is normal for a wedge-tailed eagle to target wallabies or kangaroos as prey, especially if they are smaller in size, injured, or weak. Wedge-tailed eagles are large, powerful predators that hunt birds, reptiles, and mammals like rabbits. Surprisingly, these eagles usually live off of marsupials, even targeting larger ones.

Though it’s not clear whether or not the eagles in the video are wedge-tailed, this type of eagle is one of the largest in the world, surpassed only by a couple of others like the Steller’s sea eagle and the harpy eagle. Female wedge-tailed eagles are larger than males, weighing from 6.6 to 12.8 lbs, with wingspans of 6-7.7 feet wide. The widest wingspan ever recorded of an eagle was a wedge-tailed eagle killed in Tasmania in 1931 whose wingspan was 9 feet 4 inches. These birds are massive and very skilled hunters.

What is unusual is to witness several of these eagles hunting as a group. This kind of behavior is not common, as eagles are usually solitary animals.