Subject: [Tweeters] the weight that a predator can carry
Date: Dec 19 13:13:28 2012
From: Dale C - hartspass at yahoo.com


I once watched a peregrine falcon hit and kill a California gull.? She (she was a female) flapped and flapped but could only slow and try to control their fall in the Yellowstone Canyon.? She was unable to lift the gull once they landed.? The next morning the gull had been taken up to a nest site in? a number of pieces.

According to Sibley, the gull's weight was about 80% of the weight of the falcon.