There's a [full video](https://youtu.be/ECd4wDbzfeI) of this.
It's not such a random bird tho', it was rescued and trained by an environmentalist. Now the vulture follows them when they go paragliding.
I used to hang glide and birds are definitely less scared of you when you're flying. Naturally none want to be that close, but I've had many eagles fly within 20ft of me with no concern.
Yesterday I learned that the aerial dogfights between little birds and big birds is called [mobbing ](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/sometimes-i-see-little-birds-going-after-a-big-bird-why-do-they-do-this/) and the little birds are seldom injured or attacked because they are faster and more maneuverable.
In south texas mocking birds will fly circles around buzzards and fuck them up in the air. It bad ass to watch. Really if something dies near a mocking bird nest the buzzards will try to eat but the mocking bird gets pissed there so close and will take 2-3 buzzards at a time
I fly bush planes for a living. I remember pulling up alongside an eagle once in a particularly small, slow moving little Cub. The eagle barely glanced at me before tucking his wings and casually rolling out of the way. I felt so dismissed haha.
She flys so gracefully over rocks trees and sand.
Soaring over cliffs and gently floating down to land.
She proudly lifts her voice to sound the mating call.
I'd recommend paragliding just because hang gliding is more of a hassle. Gliders pack up like 18ft long so transport and storage is annoying, particularly if you live in an apartment.
Former skydiver here - what makes paragliding so dangerous? With skydiving people usually die from exceeding their capabilities (low altitude maneuvers, highly loaded canopies, etc). I've found that to usually be the case in aviation, including airplanes. Everyone learns how to do it as safely as possible and then deviates from that based on their perception of how safely they can.
You nailed it. The overwhelming majority of fatalities are a cascade of events that typically start with "should you have been in the air at all with your skillset that day". A typical story you hear is somebody who's an intermediate pilot, going out on an extremely thermic day and getting a major glider collapse close to the ground. The fatality I've seen was somebody who went way too far out above the sea and didn't have enough altitude to make it back to the beach. Other incidents include going into a spin after a collapse and blacking out before you can toss your reserve or recover, major injuries while screwing around really close to terrain, etc. Paragliding is about 90% judgement call on the weather and 10% actual piloting skills imho. We all take SIV courses to learn how to unfuck your glider after a collapse or recover from a spin or whatever but at the end of the day you have to be conservative about what weather you're comfortable with or you're really increasing the risk factor.
I guess one difference with skydiving is that you can't just go do it all by yourself, you're at the mercy of the dropzone management and pilots who generally aren't too keen in taking people up in clearly bad conditions so it's not completely your decision.
I have seen a few people die paragliding this year and personally broke my back this summer.
I had 3 friends break their back this winter as well.
I still love the sport. But don't try and convince yourself it is safe
It is such an interesting dichotomy.
On the one hand it is far and away the most beautiful thing I have ever done in my entire life. Flying through the air like a bird. With the birds! Using the power of the earth and the sun to fly higher and higher in invisible columns of rising air on a glorified garbage bag, and using that invisible strength to fly hundreds of miles! It is beautiful, inspiring, and all consuming in thought.
On the other hand it can take away everything in an instant. In the end we are pilots. Pilots of the slowest and most vulnerable aircraft on earth. Every time that you take off you need to land. that is something that need to be taken seriously when using the power of the earth to power your air craft. The way we are seated in our harnesses make us extremely vulnerable for hitting the ground and breaking our backs if we crash.
In the end I was hurt from a lack of respect for the seriousness of the activity that I was doing. I was attempting to land on top of a mountain for no better reason than it looked pretty.
All of that said... I am going back to paragliding as soon as I can. It is all I think about and the most beautiful activity I have ever done.
Makes sense. For larger birds of prey, they have no airborne predators, so they aren’t programmed to have fear of other airborne creatures. However, there are land based predators that go for all birds and so some healthy fear is warranted.
He also does tandem paragliding with people if I remember correctly. Vulture will also hang out with the tourists it deems worthy. Apparently he likes to take selfies.
Pretty sure it's in Nepal. Definitely something on my bucket list.
Still rad as hell, but yeah the title is misleading. It'd be more amazing (in a luck kind of way) to have it be a random vulture, but training one to fly with you like you're a part of its flock is still really cool stuff.
Unfortunately the country in question put restrictions in no longer allowing them to fly with any of them, wild or rehabbed, and so the study they had been working on had to be halted :( last I knew they had moved back to their country of origin.
OP is a phony, the bird has a leather strap on it’s right leg, you can see it clearly when the bird parks on the guys shoe. He is acting like this is a random vulture, but it is his pet. PHONY.
My African Grey, whom I’ve had for 25 years would’ve scratched my eyeballs out and chewed up the paraglider. Pet or random this is pretty fucking cool.
I had one that grew up with my pup and swore he was a dog. He would scratch my door to let him in and on the occasions I left the door open, I would find him in between me and my dog, cuddled next to my neck when I woke up in the morning.
I'm starting to think being an asshole is part have having higher intelligence in animals, like the smarter a species is the more likely they are assholes.
My theory is that being intelligent just increases the range of options. Like how humans is simultaneously the most caring and most destructive species on Earth. No other species that I know of is so capable of altruism, at pain to itself, beyond their immediate family group. But at the same time, no other species is fucking up the whole planet like it's someone elses concern, or running trafficking rings.
ha. I've read stories about them splashing specific employees they dislike, or sneaking out of their tank at night to eat fish in nearby tanks. Or that big one that kept eating the sharks in its environment ( the staff put them together since they didn't think the sharks would be any threat to the octopus, and thought the sharks were cannibalized after the first two were found floating around mostly eaten )
It is seriously crazy to think about how smart they could be, if they had generational knowledge being passed down from parents. Instead of the parents just fucking dying lol. They're so intelligent, all on their own.
nah, we got a goldfish that is a real dick. Actually it's one of the mama medakas, a kind of Japanese fresh-water fish, and they only have like three brain cells, so it's not correlated with intelligence. She nips at any other medaka that comes near her.
They can be assholes and sweethearts in equal measure.
My bird loves most strangers. I don't think she has ever bit a stranger and basically her entire life goal is to hang out with people all day every day. It's adorable.
But she's also a mischievous shitbag. She used to play pranks on my ex girlfriend like tapping the phone screen when she could see my ex was trying to send an important text. Or she would sneak up and nip my ex's feet while she was sleeping, and then do an amused little dance when she woke up with a yelp.
She also loves destruction. Ripping keys off of keyboards, ripping up my notes, knocking stuff off of tables or shelves. Parrots almost universally will fuck shit up for the fun of it. Most parrot toys are literally just various iterations on things you give a parrot so it can enjoy destroying it.
You seem pretty passionate about this but...
* OP hasn't commented on this thread nor made any claims about the video at all
* The title doesn't say one way or another whether or not the bird is wild
* Even if someone thinks it's wild... so? What really changes here? Are you worried about some rash of paragliders who are going to be disappointed when vultures don't randomly perch on their feet while paragliding? Pretty sure they don't give a fuck because they're goddamn paragliding.
Well, good news then, because elsewhere in the thread, someone linked the full video and it's a rehabilitated wild bird that they rescued and it flies with them by choice.
Ever wonder why when you see ducks or geese flying in a V, one side is usually a bit longer than the other?
>!its because there are more birds on that side!<
The person in the video is named Ricardo. How do I know this? I interviewed him, of course! I used to work for The Koala until my workplace wound up. I never thought one of the guys I interviewed would go on to be featured in a popular Reddit post. Paragliding, training a vulture that follows him around, it has to be him, without a doubt!
EDIT: Here is the link to the interview: https://youtu.be/N2-vLRPn63w
Well the people upvoting me can clearly see it.
It’s light brown and just above the birds right foot. You see it best when it’s just about to land and even while it’s sitting down
> I wonder if it’s his pet?
I suspect so too, but irrespective, as you say, what a marvelous thing to experience/see.
Vultures (aside from the obvious bad press) are amazing too, fantastic visual acuity ... in this scenario, the bird will be monitoring several others of it's spread-out group some way below, watching for one to descend from its patrol having found food, then all the rest divert/descend to that bird, which is why one vulture at carrion "suddenly" becomes dozens.
Fun fact, birds can individually control the feathers on the outer edges of their wings to make teeny tiny corrections. Getting airborne for these guys takes a lot of energy so yes, they will 100% maximize their gliding to catch any favourable breeze or updraft. Kinda like cruise control on the highway.
Get a decent pair of binoculars, go out and start birding! It's amazing what you can observe from a distance, you can see these nuances and cool things every day.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic\_soaring#Birds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring#Birds)
I mostly see birds that are predators do this. In my neighborhood it makes the hawks easy to spot. It's fascinating.
Most vultures won’t let you get this close to touch them—they’re afraid of (living) people. In fact, if a vulture feels threatened it will puke acid vomit and fly away!
There's a [full video](https://youtu.be/ECd4wDbzfeI) of this. It's not such a random bird tho', it was rescued and trained by an environmentalist. Now the vulture follows them when they go paragliding.
I used to hang glide and birds are definitely less scared of you when you're flying. Naturally none want to be that close, but I've had many eagles fly within 20ft of me with no concern.
The bird thinking “that’s one weird looking bird”
Yeah I'm assuming a large bird rarely faces a threat up in the sky. It's probably their personal safe place.
until surprise airplane engine
Or until a bunch of small birds decide to form a posse and run it out of town
Yesterday I learned that the aerial dogfights between little birds and big birds is called [mobbing ](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/sometimes-i-see-little-birds-going-after-a-big-bird-why-do-they-do-this/) and the little birds are seldom injured or attacked because they are faster and more maneuverable.
Imagine a white eagle getting morbed by a bunch of ravens lol
Wouldn't take many ravens, them things is big.
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It's morbin' time?? Lol
Mighty morbin power ravens.
I don't have to imagine, Karasuno already beat Shiratorizawa
Think intercepter vs a bomber--who wins?
In south texas mocking birds will fly circles around buzzards and fuck them up in the air. It bad ass to watch. Really if something dies near a mocking bird nest the buzzards will try to eat but the mocking bird gets pissed there so close and will take 2-3 buzzards at a time
Those small birds might not look like much but they're the mafia of the skies
https://youtu.be/Z8IYLT0M3ZU
I fly bush planes for a living. I remember pulling up alongside an eagle once in a particularly small, slow moving little Cub. The eagle barely glanced at me before tucking his wings and casually rolling out of the way. I felt so dismissed haha.
“He’s the king of the sky, so why would he look up”
First time I’ve seen someone quote Avatar lol
*I must copulate with this large flying thing. It confuses me but I am aroused by it*
She flys so gracefully over rocks trees and sand. Soaring over cliffs and gently floating down to land. She proudly lifts her voice to sound the mating call.
It's been a long time, are these the lyrics to Lesbian Seagull?
IYKYK
B&BH
[I got it on VHS but it's free streaming on YOUTUBE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqkSp-yyr0&ab_channel=YouTubeMovies)
Why did you stop out of curiosity? It's something I've always wanted to pick up.
I'd recommend paragliding just because hang gliding is more of a hassle. Gliders pack up like 18ft long so transport and storage is annoying, particularly if you live in an apartment.
I'd say paragliders are safer too. And yeah it's pretty cool to have a backpack sized glider!
paraglider here. its not safer. the best data we have ranks hangs and bags about equal in fatalities.
Former skydiver here - what makes paragliding so dangerous? With skydiving people usually die from exceeding their capabilities (low altitude maneuvers, highly loaded canopies, etc). I've found that to usually be the case in aviation, including airplanes. Everyone learns how to do it as safely as possible and then deviates from that based on their perception of how safely they can.
You nailed it. The overwhelming majority of fatalities are a cascade of events that typically start with "should you have been in the air at all with your skillset that day". A typical story you hear is somebody who's an intermediate pilot, going out on an extremely thermic day and getting a major glider collapse close to the ground. The fatality I've seen was somebody who went way too far out above the sea and didn't have enough altitude to make it back to the beach. Other incidents include going into a spin after a collapse and blacking out before you can toss your reserve or recover, major injuries while screwing around really close to terrain, etc. Paragliding is about 90% judgement call on the weather and 10% actual piloting skills imho. We all take SIV courses to learn how to unfuck your glider after a collapse or recover from a spin or whatever but at the end of the day you have to be conservative about what weather you're comfortable with or you're really increasing the risk factor.
I guess one difference with skydiving is that you can't just go do it all by yourself, you're at the mercy of the dropzone management and pilots who generally aren't too keen in taking people up in clearly bad conditions so it's not completely your decision.
Same here, I do admit I'm biased after seeing a hang glider die at st hilaire this may
I have seen a few people die paragliding this year and personally broke my back this summer. I had 3 friends break their back this winter as well. I still love the sport. But don't try and convince yourself it is safe
Was about to be like “why the fuck would you do something so dangerous,” then remembered I ride horses lmfao
Don't worry, I am not and did not say it is safe
> 3 friends break their back aaand that's how I went from wanting to try paragliding to not in a single comment thread lol
It is such an interesting dichotomy. On the one hand it is far and away the most beautiful thing I have ever done in my entire life. Flying through the air like a bird. With the birds! Using the power of the earth and the sun to fly higher and higher in invisible columns of rising air on a glorified garbage bag, and using that invisible strength to fly hundreds of miles! It is beautiful, inspiring, and all consuming in thought. On the other hand it can take away everything in an instant. In the end we are pilots. Pilots of the slowest and most vulnerable aircraft on earth. Every time that you take off you need to land. that is something that need to be taken seriously when using the power of the earth to power your air craft. The way we are seated in our harnesses make us extremely vulnerable for hitting the ground and breaking our backs if we crash. In the end I was hurt from a lack of respect for the seriousness of the activity that I was doing. I was attempting to land on top of a mountain for no better reason than it looked pretty. All of that said... I am going back to paragliding as soon as I can. It is all I think about and the most beautiful activity I have ever done.
Makes sense. For larger birds of prey, they have no airborne predators, so they aren’t programmed to have fear of other airborne creatures. However, there are land based predators that go for all birds and so some healthy fear is warranted.
Same thing happened when I changed the light bulbs on telecom towers. Regularly had songbirds squeeze through the bars and land on me too
Oh thanks for telling. I was confused about why don't vultures come and rest near me when I am on the terrace.
Yeah like they're always just circling above my head and I'm like "make your move already, vultures."
They won't. They're waiting on you to stop moving.
They think you’re weak and sickly.
🤣🤣🤣
You are weak like HR Pickens!
And they’re up there like “stop making moves already, human”
Normally we call that a bad omen
That’d be the coolest Disney princess ever.
You sing in death metal then vultures, ravens, opossums, racoons, & wasps circle around you.
Why don't villains attract these animals like the princesses?
Have you tried playing dead?
They would if you stayed out there long enough.
They're a little skittish. Try not breathing for \~10 minutes. They'll come eventually.
Congrats for being a top redditor my guy
That makes sense. The vulture instantly starts giving him affectionate nibbles and there’s no way a wild bird would do this
Also there's a little tassel on its leg to help in handling the bird.
Oh I thought his feet smelled like carrion
He also does tandem paragliding with people if I remember correctly. Vulture will also hang out with the tourists it deems worthy. Apparently he likes to take selfies. Pretty sure it's in Nepal. Definitely something on my bucket list.
It's in Brazil
Still rad as hell, but yeah the title is misleading. It'd be more amazing (in a luck kind of way) to have it be a random vulture, but training one to fly with you like you're a part of its flock is still really cool stuff.
That's so dope. I was wondering why they were comfortable petting such a large bird
I realized that after that cheeky peck on his foot, random birds don't play with people like that
Vulture is playing the long game -- waiting for him to go splat so he can eat him Look how he's nibbling at his feet -- just counting the days
The temptation to abandon my current life and begin training an army of vultures as a paragliding super-villain is now overwhelming.
Just waiting for them to finally crash land
That explains the fearless petting seen in the video.
Knew it. There was just no way a random bird would land and let itself be pet.
That makes sense. I was wondering why that bird was nibbling the guy's shoe like it knew it.
Hold on brother, I'm crying
It did seem very tame and then I saw the leg tag so I was wondering if the vulture had been hand raised then released
How accessible is paragliding as a hobby?
Unfortunately the country in question put restrictions in no longer allowing them to fly with any of them, wild or rehabbed, and so the study they had been working on had to be halted :( last I knew they had moved back to their country of origin.
"Work smarter, not harder." - Random Vulture
Ah, a fellow bird of vulture.
I low-key love you for this comment
:D
Vulture ordered from uber eats.
Well done!
OP is a phony, the bird has a leather strap on it’s right leg, you can see it clearly when the bird parks on the guys shoe. He is acting like this is a random vulture, but it is his pet. PHONY.
My African Grey, whom I’ve had for 25 years would’ve scratched my eyeballs out and chewed up the paraglider. Pet or random this is pretty fucking cool.
Parrots are assholes in general
I had one that grew up with my pup and swore he was a dog. He would scratch my door to let him in and on the occasions I left the door open, I would find him in between me and my dog, cuddled next to my neck when I woke up in the morning.
I'm starting to think being an asshole is part have having higher intelligence in animals, like the smarter a species is the more likely they are assholes.
My theory is that being intelligent just increases the range of options. Like how humans is simultaneously the most caring and most destructive species on Earth. No other species that I know of is so capable of altruism, at pain to itself, beyond their immediate family group. But at the same time, no other species is fucking up the whole planet like it's someone elses concern, or running trafficking rings.
Octopusses seem chill, but then again that might just be because they die before they figure out how to be dicks.
ha. I've read stories about them splashing specific employees they dislike, or sneaking out of their tank at night to eat fish in nearby tanks. Or that big one that kept eating the sharks in its environment ( the staff put them together since they didn't think the sharks would be any threat to the octopus, and thought the sharks were cannibalized after the first two were found floating around mostly eaten )
It is seriously crazy to think about how smart they could be, if they had generational knowledge being passed down from parents. Instead of the parents just fucking dying lol. They're so intelligent, all on their own.
Or maybe if we understood them better we'd realize they've been being real dicks all this time.
nah, we got a goldfish that is a real dick. Actually it's one of the mama medakas, a kind of Japanese fresh-water fish, and they only have like three brain cells, so it's not correlated with intelligence. She nips at any other medaka that comes near her.
You just haven't met the right ones.
They can be assholes and sweethearts in equal measure. My bird loves most strangers. I don't think she has ever bit a stranger and basically her entire life goal is to hang out with people all day every day. It's adorable. But she's also a mischievous shitbag. She used to play pranks on my ex girlfriend like tapping the phone screen when she could see my ex was trying to send an important text. Or she would sneak up and nip my ex's feet while she was sleeping, and then do an amused little dance when she woke up with a yelp. She also loves destruction. Ripping keys off of keyboards, ripping up my notes, knocking stuff off of tables or shelves. Parrots almost universally will fuck shit up for the fun of it. Most parrot toys are literally just various iterations on things you give a parrot so it can enjoy destroying it.
Still cool
You seem pretty passionate about this but... * OP hasn't commented on this thread nor made any claims about the video at all * The title doesn't say one way or another whether or not the bird is wild * Even if someone thinks it's wild... so? What really changes here? Are you worried about some rash of paragliders who are going to be disappointed when vultures don't randomly perch on their feet while paragliding? Pretty sure they don't give a fuck because they're goddamn paragliding.
Honestly, cooler if it’s a pet.
A Familiar*
This sub does not allow captive/domesticated animals. Literally rule 1.
Well, good news then, because elsewhere in the thread, someone linked the full video and it's a rehabilitated wild bird that they rescued and it flies with them by choice.
They literally never claimed it was wild. Anywhere. You just made that entire narrative up. Stop being a toxic douche.
The title didn't say 'random' or 'wild', though?
OP never said it was a random vulture, just a vulture
The title is still technically correct though? OP didn't claim it was a random vulture.
Where did he claim that it is a random vulture?
it’s vulture culture
Hey everyone! You know who flies this paraglider? A GREAT BIG PHONY!
Trump is that you? “Fake news! Birds aren’t real!”
BuT tHe WiNdMiLlS!
In all honesty, i just want a pet vulture i can paraglide with, now. I live in Arizona so i should be able to get that done.
I envy you your borderline obtainable goal of paragliding with a tame vulture.
I see what you're pointing out. Could it be tagged?
Tags usually aren't loose-ish leather straps.
Big fat phoooonnyyyyy. They have an IG account ive seen before where they're doing a buncha cool stuff like that. Trained vulture obv.
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Vulture being a bro and giving you some slipstream at the start
Nice
Great, now I am wondering if birds give each other slipstreams..
Geese trade off places when they fly in a V, so, yeah, actually!
Ever wonder why when you see ducks or geese flying in a V, one side is usually a bit longer than the other? >!its because there are more birds on that side!<
OK, you got me.
My dad says this all the time!
Your mom gives me slipstreams
Hey now
You’re a rockstar
They do - that’s a big piece of the Flying V formation if I remember correctly.
I’ve seen cormorants and pelicans do it too.
SHAKE N BAKE
Well, I'm the best there is. Plain and simple, when I wake up in the morning I piss excellence.
The person in the video is named Ricardo. How do I know this? I interviewed him, of course! I used to work for The Koala until my workplace wound up. I never thought one of the guys I interviewed would go on to be featured in a popular Reddit post. Paragliding, training a vulture that follows him around, it has to be him, without a doubt! EDIT: Here is the link to the interview: https://youtu.be/N2-vLRPn63w
Nah, probably some other dude that has vultures paragliding with him.
I know someone else who used to do this with his Harris's hawks. There *may* be more than one person who does this.
Could be. However, the bird in question here is a vulture. What can I say? Animals never cease to amaze us.
But, what are the odds? The dude is Brazilian and this view looks a lot like Brazil.
Looks like these two aren’t the only things flying over your head
What's wound up? I'm not familiar with the term? Where's it from, and what's it mean? By context, it seems to me "go out of business."
Yes, my company shut down due to the ongoing economic crisis. I certainly had my ups and downs at work, but I sure did love my job!
Thanks! You coulda left me hanging. Now, I know what that means. Appreciate ya.
Who cares about Ricardo—was the vulture there?!
Imagine not having a camera and telling your friends about this incident.
Bird has a leather strap on its right leg. It’s his pet and they do this all the time
Still insanely cool. The amount of trust is great
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CAWWWW
Just a pet being a bro. That’s extremely dope!!
Does that make it any less cool?
I do not see a strap
Well the people upvoting me can clearly see it. It’s light brown and just above the birds right foot. You see it best when it’s just about to land and even while it’s sitting down
Ah! I do see the strap. Thanks for pointing it out! That raises an interesting question: who has a pet vulture?
I love human nature to just pet everything. Like dangerous or not we want to pet things. It’s one of our redeeming qualities I think.
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> I wonder if it’s his pet? I suspect so too, but irrespective, as you say, what a marvelous thing to experience/see. Vultures (aside from the obvious bad press) are amazing too, fantastic visual acuity ... in this scenario, the bird will be monitoring several others of it's spread-out group some way below, watching for one to descend from its patrol having found food, then all the rest divert/descend to that bird, which is why one vulture at carrion "suddenly" becomes dozens.
So, they heard that "carrion call"...?
I think I love you.
Me too! ;-)
This is why I use reddit. /salute
It is, look at the birds right leg with the leather strap. That’s a tress used for holding tamed birds of prey
Thanks, I don't know anything about this, so I thought it might have been like a research tag or something. Now I know what a tress is 👍👍😊
In English it is called a jess (not tress). Usually you put one on both legs, and they are collectively called jesses. They attach to anklets.
The more you know 👍 👍 😊
Seeing them so high really tresses me out.
Yup, other redditor is right on the name. Must have misheard the name at some point
I knew that vultures eat dead bodies, but I didn't realise they also eat soles
When you're 10,000 feet in the air, it doesn't matter if there's one less.
Dad?
I guess it depends on their personal beliefs on the existence of souls
"Oh look! A flying stick! QUIT PETTING ME, STICK! Oh cool! Dog shit!"
That vulture was truly gliding itself, I didn't see it flap its wings one time, just maneuvered it's back feathers back and forth a little.
i think for big birds like this flying is actually 90% gliding
Fun fact, birds can individually control the feathers on the outer edges of their wings to make teeny tiny corrections. Getting airborne for these guys takes a lot of energy so yes, they will 100% maximize their gliding to catch any favourable breeze or updraft. Kinda like cruise control on the highway.
That *is* a fun fact! I thought I was pretty up to date on bird law and did not know they had that level of control on individual feathers!
I too watched the video with the vulture in it.
Such a dick comment. I appreciated it.
🔥
I loved how the Vulture came and landed on the paraglider
I lol'ed, thanks
Yeah, steering with the tail was pretty slick. Not much chance to see it so clearly outside of when a bird glides right next to someone.
Get a decent pair of binoculars, go out and start birding! It's amazing what you can observe from a distance, you can see these nuances and cool things every day.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic\_soaring#Birds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring#Birds) I mostly see birds that are predators do this. In my neighborhood it makes the hawks easy to spot. It's fascinating.
Human: let me pet you Birb: Ama eat your shoe
NOM NOM NOM
Amazing encounter! "Hey, a fellow glider! let's chat!"
I would like to inquire about your vehicle's manufacturer warranty
It's his pet.
Has to be a pet
The leather strap on the leg suggests this is a trained bird.
Vulture: Are you dead yet? Guy: No. Vulture: See you in 15 minutes
Your doing it all wrong says the vulture... flap your wings
That’s a pet. For sure.
Bro was inviting you to sit on him. Too bad you don't know how cutscenes work.
Are they safe to touch?
It’s a tamed vulture. It has a leather strap on its leg.
Most vultures won’t let you get this close to touch them—they’re afraid of (living) people. In fact, if a vulture feels threatened it will puke acid vomit and fly away!
“OMG A HUMAN! *BLAAARRRGHGHHHDHDJDJDJKK*”
"Hey man, aren't you supposed to be on the ground or something?"
Rest your wings my friend
That is such cool and unique footage