How much weight can a vulture carry?

[1srelluc]

I thought about it this morning when I saw a half dozen turkey buzzards picking at a small rabbit carcass.

Come to find out they can carry up to 4X their weight so it would seem to me that one of them would have toted off the little bunny for itself......Social pecking order maybe?

How Much Weight Can a Vulture Carry? - My Bird Garden

So, just how much weight can a vulture carry? The answer may surprise you – studies have shown that vultures can actually lift to four times their own body

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[Care4all]

Smaller kitty cats!!!!!!

 

[1srelluc]

Smaller kitty cats!!!!!!

Yeah, stands to reason.



Odd though, I'm out and about a lot and have never seen a Turkey Buzzard fly off with anything either in its mouth or talons.

I have surprised them before and they will puke so they can gain flight.....Very nasty.

 

[mudwhistle]

Smaller kitty cats!!!!!!

That's not even funny.

 

[1srelluc]

That's not even funny.

I don't think a Turkey Buzzard will mess with live prey.....Maybe the CA Condor.

 

[Care4all]

I don't think a Turkey Buzzard will mess with live prey.....Maybe the CA Condor.

Owls, hawks, Eagles around here!

 

[mudwhistle]

I don't think a Turkey Buzzard will mess with live prey.....Maybe the CA Condor.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[1srelluc]

Owls, hawks, Eagles around here!

Same here....Red Tailed and smaller hawks hunt in my back yard all the time....Many a dove has met it's demise back there.

We have both Eagles and Ospreys down on my river property. I love to watch the Ospreys fish. Ospreys are no joke, I'm amazed at the size of the fish they pluck out of the water. The fuckin' Eagles will steal from them.

I shoot carp with a bow this time of year and the coons and Eagles make short work of them.

 

[Care4all]

I was thinking the same thing.

So no little kitties?

 

[mudwhistle]

So no little kitties?

Absolutely not.
I've raised bunnies too, but bunnies have never curled up in my arm when I'm sleeping.

 

[ReinyDays]

Condors weigh up to 15 kg, or 40 lbs ... four times that is 160 lbs ... they can carry off an average adult female human? ...

The answer is no ... mainly because their feet aren't strong enough to hold that kind of weight ... if a vulture has to carry something off, they do so in their beaks ... their wings are designed for soaring, not heavy lifting ... this is universally true for Turkey Vultures, however there are exceptions for Black Vultures ... {Cite} ...

ETA: I've had eagles hunt my cats ... peacocks will taste a cat but generally won't eat them ... other than that it's just the mountain lions that keep the strays in check ...

 

[BULLDOG]

I thought about it this morning when I saw a half dozen turkey buzzards picking at a small rabbit carcass.

Come to find out they can carry up to 4X their weight so it would seem to me that one of them would have toted off the little bunny for itself......Social pecking order maybe?

How Much Weight Can a Vulture Carry? - My Bird Garden

So, just how much weight can a vulture carry? The answer may surprise you – studies have shown that vultures can actually lift to four times their own body

mybirdgarden.com

Not sure how much most vultures might be able to carry, but ex-mother-in- law seemed to be able to carry most anything she wanted.

 

[Muhammed]

Owls, hawks, Eagles around here!

Here it's the Peregrine falcons and red tailed hawks. They'll eat kittens. There's no escaping a Peregrine in a 240mph dive.

And the owls too. They love kitten meat.

 

[Care4all]

Same here....Red Tailed and smaller hawks hunt in my back yard all the time....Many a dove has met it's demise back there.

We have both Eagles and Ospreys down on my river property. I love to watch the Ospreys fish. Ospreys are no joke, I'm amazed at the size of the fish they pluck out of the water. The fuckin' Eagles will steal from them.

I shoot carp with a bow this time of year and the coons and Eagles make short work of them.

Bald eagle on tree in my side yard and his mate on a tree towards the front yard

They were absolutely huge and majestic!

Many more pics in this thread:

Thread 'TWO BALD EAGLES in my yard a few seconds ago'

Oct 20, 2015

Two Bald Eagles on two trees in my yard...I'm shaking...had to run in and get the camera, the card wasn't in it and I had no room for pics on the camera itself, and then the batteries went dead and the hubby ran in and got me 4 new batteries....

All the while I am thinking that the American Bald Eagles will fly away before I can get a good picture of them....

They were beautiful....HUGE HUGE HUGE, you have no idea how huge these birds are...the pics just do not show how big they are...maybe 6 or 7 foot wingspans...

One was in full sunlight, the other was in a tree 50 ft away, in the...

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[Muhammed]

I thought about it this morning when I saw a half dozen turkey buzzards picking at a small rabbit carcass.

Come to find out they can carry up to 4X their weight so it would seem to me that one of them would have toted off the little bunny for itself......Social pecking order maybe?

How Much Weight Can a Vulture Carry? - My Bird Garden

So, just how much weight can a vulture carry? The answer may surprise you – studies have shown that vultures can actually lift to four times their own body

mybirdgarden.com

That would be like a family gathered around the dinner table at Thanksgiving and you run off with the turkey and go eat it in your room by yourself.

Not cool.

 

[1srelluc]

That would be like a family gathered around the dinner table at Thanksgiving and you run off with the turkey and go eat it in your room by yourself.

Not cool.

As far as I know "cool" in not in nature's vocabulary when it comes to obtaining food.

I just figured the Turkey Buzzards were not able to carry much weight.

 

[mudwhistle]

Here it's the Peregrine falcons and red tailed hawks. They'll eat kittens. There's no escaping a Peregrine in a 240mph dive.

And the owls too. They love kitten meat.

Well.....I just won't be leaving my kittens outside till they get bigger.
We have hawks and Owls in my neighborhood. We're surrounded by pastures on the cattle farm up the road.

 

[Care4all]

Here it's the Peregrine falcons and red tailed hawks. They'll eat kittens. There's no escaping a Peregrine in a 240mph dive.

And the owls too. They love kitten meat.

My cat and the neighbor's cat a little distance of woods in between were friends and hung out from time to time.

One evening my cat came flying through the kitchen window from a 5 ft high storage shed, looking behind herself with saucer eyes....

The next few days she did not make one meow to ask to go outside. We ran in to our neighbor and he told us that he saw an owl sweep up his cat, while my cat watched....then she ran like the dickens through the woods.... and then in through the opened kitchen window....

She never ventured off again....it changed her completely. Even when she went out on the deck with us, she wouldn't stay out there unless she was under a chair or under the table!