How Much Weight Can a Bald Eagle Carry
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According to the Alaskan Fish And Game department,
"The wings of an hawkeye demand to support the 8 to 12-pound bird as well equally whatever the bird is carrying, and all-time estimates put the lifting ability of an eagle at 4 or five pounds. ..."
But as the article continues,
"Lift is dependent not only on wing size, but on airspeed. The faster a bird (or airplane) is flying, the greater the elevator potential. An eagle that lands on the embankment to grab a fish, and so takes off once again, is limited to a smaller load than an hawkeye that swoops down at 20 or thirty miles an hour and snatches up a fish. That momentum and speed gives the bird the ability to acquit more weight."
This may or may non explain Amazing Bird Records for:
greatest weight-carrying capacity: bald eagle lifting a 6.8 kg (15 lb) mule deer
answered May 24 2022 at eighteen:06
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Lands on the beach to grab a fish? Like one that's just laying in that location? I'm having problem understanding what they're thinking of.
May 24 2022 at 20:02
Momentum would assistance with the forcefulness required to accelerate the object off the ground. However after that information technology would still need to accept enough elevator to carry on conveying - in this instance the play tricks letting go would help!
May 24 2022 at 21:54
@AzorAhai information technology's a hypothetical state of affairs to illustrate the physics; it doesn't have to exist 100% plausible...
May 24 2022 at 22:09
@AzorAhai Hopefully the serial will be cancelled for that lapse.
May 24 2022 at 23:35
@AzorAhai, Baldheaded Eagles are also scavengers. If in that location is an easy repast bachelor, they are more than happy to save the free energy and eat something already dead. They don't limit their scavenging to fish either.
May 25 2022 at 17:15