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Megafauna (mander.xyz)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 88 points 8 months ago (5 children)

there's some freaky perspective shit going on there. They're big. but they're not economy car big.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The wingsman can easily be 8 to 9 ft if it's female

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Look at the first picture, wings aren’t spread. The largest baldies are recorded as having 8 foot wingspans- in alaska. They tend to be smaller closer to the equator.

For comparison, if that’s a Hyundai Elantra behind it, it’s 15 feet long. (Close enough for 4 doors whatever it is.)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

From what I can see : The car is down slope and probably 35 ft away. The eagle is on the slope and probably 15 ft away. It has an 8 to 9-ft wingspan roughly.

I've had one of these land on my boat before so I'm familiar with raptor sizes from the Mid-Atlantic East Coast, USA.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

yes. it's forced perspective. which is what I alluded to by saying "some freaky perspective shit going on"

not saying the bird is actually ginormous. just that it looks ginormous. they're big birds. Big, dumb birds. (I agree with with Franklin. turkeys > bald eagles. also there's something hilarious about them trying to get crab apples

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Can I subscribe to Mid-Atlantic Raptor Facts?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the bird is on a flat roof maybe a garage or something similar on the same height or slightly below the window

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Brother, the eagle is standing on grass

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Grass roofs are amazing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Yeah whatever surface it's on, it's slightly elevated. It's a big bird but there's some optical illusion going on.

[–] groknull 5 points 8 months ago

Need banana for scale

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Moped big at most, since we're measuring in vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

E-bike is the best I can do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Sold!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think there's oil in that there yard.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Cue red tailed hawk screaming in the distance

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Please correct me if I'm wrong.....but I'm fairly certain that's a vulture.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Seems like an eagle to me. At least in North America, Bald eagles can be considerably larger than vultures. Oh and baldies are also carrion eaters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does the US have unusually small vultures? Mexican vultures are famous, and much larger than a bald eagle, but even here in Brazil our vultures are about the size of a bald eagle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

https://avianreport.com/what-is-the-bald-eagle-size/

Bald Eagle 201 cm

Vulture 171 cm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Condors are vultures too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I am aware, I was pointing to what was being referred to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Condors are planes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Condors are Superman.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I think so too. The pic on the left its easier to see its head.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thought the title said "Magafauna", which also works

[–] drcobaltjedi 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well, no, not really. Back during the 2016 election don poorleon did a photoshoot with a bald eagle and the bird attacked him. I still love the pure symbolism there, the symbol of American democracy considered him a threat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Get that tiny hand away from me!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Was that before or after the Birdie incident?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

DEMOCRACY!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

How about a nice cup of Liber-TEA?!!

[–] Shareni 5 points 8 months ago

OLIGARCHY!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Omg - just looked up eagle wingspan and it's wider than the height of any human I've ever met

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Griffin?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Door

[–] Shareni 2 points 8 months ago

Hodor