https://bayphotosbydonna.com/2013/07/23/osprey-eagle-interaction/
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To get an idea on the size comparison of the Osprey to the Eagle, here’s a chart alongside a male human. (Sorry for the different language, I had this chart in English but couldn’t locate it.) Their size in comparison to us humans is really amazing!
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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
Was watching one of those show where they are hunting for evidence of Bigfoot. Remember when I saw a huge bird fly by that lore would describe as a Thunderbird.
Don't know what the wingspan was, but from nose to tail it was as long as a car.
Has anyone on Pelican seen a really huge bird like that, ever?
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The problems I have with the description provided:
1. No build up story, such stories are useful for the author as a recall mechanism in flushing out details. Something you saw on TV may have been the trigger, but no memory of where, when and why as support or context. (
EDIT: see next post, gets resolved)
2. Birds in flight are recorded/remembered by wingspan. When on a branch or roof a bird is most often measured/compared by torso dimensions or over all height head to tail. (
EDIT: see next post, was seen as side view in flight)
For example the first time I saw a bald eagle was in Washington DC zoo at age 10, it was in captivity, a large netted area, it was sitting on a tree branch motionless. It looked like a stump of wood until it moved, then the size of it clicked in, almost as tall as me, and wider (I was a skinny kid). When it eventually spread it's wings to stretch I recalled thinking it would fill up the small bedroom I slept in at home (9-feet wide).