I need some help with a large bird. I didn't see it very clearly but I can give you this: it was flying over a large, cultivated uneven plains with some light vegetation. It flew in circles near the highway and there was two of them. It was large with wide wings and what I think could give it away was it was all black with grey-white patch underneath its wings. I have two ideas of what it could be: black falcon or wedgetail eagal but I'm not certain. It was a while ago so I thought I clear it out of my head.
It's hard to tell. Location (state, town) would help for starters perhaps. Difficult from your description but neither Wedge-tailed Eagle nor Black Falcon would have white under the wing. Black Falcon may be dark grey but it does not lok white? The wide wings are BF
Here is a BF image I found via Google images.
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The birds of prey that immediately spring to mind with white/light grey under the wings are Black-breasted Buzzard or Little Eagle. Both would also fit the broad winged look.
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Black-breasted Buzzard
http://www.threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au/tsprofile/profile.aspx?id=10395
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Little Eagle
http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/picpages/pic30-219-1.html
Black Falcon
http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/picpages/pic32-55-2.html
If it helps it was on the Princess Highway I do believe and it was more grey then white.
Definetly not little eagel or black breasted buzzard but most likely black falcon. Wegdetail looks to big and the others are not the right colour above.
James
Princes Hwy runs from NSW to Victoria hence why it's better to also provide the precise locality! :) And it's bird of prey, unless it's a religious bird and wants to pray! ;)
the little eagle picture is a light morph and you can also get a dark morph, the bird can vary from dark sandy to chocolate brown and dull white patches under wings.
For the future key features i look for to id a raptor are tail shape eg wedge,square,fork and whether or not it has fingered wings or straight. hope this helps