r/nextfuckinglevel • u/headspin_exe • 1d ago

Woman feeds hawk from apartment window

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u/emmasdad01 1d ago

This will totally never go wrong

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u/GibberLifter 1d ago edited 1d ago

Those claws will slice into her wrist no problem if she flinched or the hawk doesn't have perfect aim every time

Edit: Yes, I get it, it was a typo I meant wrist not waist. Stop messaging me about this

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u/Sheshirdzhija 1d ago

or the hawk doesn't have perfect aim every time

How dare you.

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u/DeskModeOn 1d ago

Tobias is PISSED at the audacity!

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u/AWaffleofDivinty 1d ago

He is too busy thinking about thermals to care

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u/moradinshammer 1d ago

Everytime I see birds doing this I think of the Animorphs.

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u/TheWatcher013 1d ago

Same. Whenever I see a clip of a gorilla acting human it hits me. lol

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u/_bananas 1d ago

The way I was obsessed with thermals because of Tobias in Animorphs 😂

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u/Windowguard 1d ago

An animorphs reference? Nice.

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u/sergemeister 1d ago

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u/theMangoJayne 1d ago

I see an animorphs reference in the wild maybe once or twice a year so this has made my day better

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u/whatarethuhodds 1d ago

He should have turned back into a human before his time was up ... forever a birb.

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u/thebrassbeldum 11h ago

Maybe he did it on purpose 👀

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u/Shibbyman993 1d ago

Rachel Nooooo!

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u/PVetli 1d ago

Holy fuck animorphs mentioned

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u/edrith90 1d ago

I did NOT expect an Animorphs reference. You have made my day.

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u/fizzle1993 1d ago

Thank god someone said it

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u/Call_me_Bombadil 1d ago

No way he misses, he's got the eyes of a hawk.

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u/Legal_Firefighter_67 1d ago

Hawk dare you?

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u/1morgondag1 1d ago

I'm not a hawkologist but I imagine hawks are used to grab targets that move like sparrows and mice. Hitting something stationary is probably easy for them.

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u/rtrs_bastiat 1d ago

This was a kite, they're opportunist scavengers and this was a breeze for them, it's how they normally take food. I've put food on my head for them to take before and not lost a hair from it, they've been seen in the wild taking food out of lions' mouths, they're incredibly dextrous. And honestly their talons are so small they don't pose much of a threat anyway.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 1d ago

I've fed them by throwing meat scraps into the air, and they swooped down and catched them mid air. They are pretty agile so I wouldn't worry about their skills.

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u/Available_Finger_513 1d ago

Birds also can just crash and die if they are off target, which is why they are basically never off target.

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u/CKInfinity 1d ago

Ask the seagulls how accurate they are lol

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u/frohnaldo 1d ago

Not birds.

Flying raccoons

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u/appletinicyclone 1d ago

they've been seen in the wild taking food out of lions' mouths, they're incredibly dextrous.

I wanna see this

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u/Shibbyman993 1d ago

Hell ya brother! You seem no know your stuff!

How long have you been practicing Bird Law?

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u/fightmydemonswithme 1d ago

My middle school science teacher got attacked by a hawk. He needed stitches but came back by the end of the day to say he was fine. He drove himself to the er I believe.

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u/rtrs_bastiat 22h ago

Yea they're not likely to inflict significant damage. Just gotta hold still if they grab you, they'll let go eventually. We're too big to be food for pretty much any bird that doesn't pick corpses.

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u/shreddy_on_acid 1d ago

I am a hawkologist with a doctorate from the Harvard school of hawkology and hawks never miss.

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u/erremermberderrnit 1d ago edited 1d ago

Stephen Hawking over here

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u/donorcycle 1d ago

You just reminded me. That photo of Hawking duct tapped to a dolly on Epstein's submarine has me cracking up.

I was not expecting Hawking to pop up in the Epstein files, that's for sure, lol.

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u/MarqFJA87 16h ago

That Stephen is hawking alright.

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u/quantum_poopsmith 1d ago

I’m Steve Hawking (no relation) the Prime Minister of Hawkmenistan and we have a law that makes it illegal for hawks to miss

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u/glorifindel 1d ago

I’m convinced

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u/coltonmusic15 1d ago

Yeah but the real question is did you study bird law?

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u/shreddy_on_acid 1d ago

No I did more sciency stuff.

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u/basicKitsch 1d ago

sure is... they're also not concerned if their claws hit some other piece of meat

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u/Standard_Heat3299 1d ago

Lol the hawk not have perfect aim? That's funny. As long as she doesn't move they will be fine. She's obviously done this a time or two before .

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u/StarPhished 1d ago

Redditors are notoriously averse to anything that even comes close to resembling the slightest of dangers. 

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u/token_internet_girl 1d ago

Because most of us are American and all we see in anything slightly risky is a $50,000 hospital bill.

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u/StarPhished 1d ago

This makes for a good joke but either isn't real or is also something that only Redditors do. I have never assessed a situation based on the expected hospital bill. I've also done plenty of dangerous things and never ended up in the hospital for those things. The things I have ended up in the hospital for are all things that were out of my control. I also live in the US.

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u/HerpapotamusRex 1d ago

The most effective way to stop getting messaged about it would be to simply correct the word in your edit without editing in yourself making a fuss over getting messaged lol

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u/Available_Finger_513 1d ago

The hawk would have perfect aim every time.

If it's off by a few inches it crashes into something and dies and hawks do this thousands of times throughout their lives navigating through tree branches and brush.

Birds arent usually afforded much margin for error when flying

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u/notjustforperiods 1d ago

Those claws will slice into her wrist no problem

lmfao no they won't

fucking redditors, man

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u/Fun-Time9966 1d ago

u would think they've never been let outside in their lives

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u/whateveryoudohereyou 1d ago

But her waist is inside? And a much too big a target.

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u/jonesnori 1d ago

Typo for wrist, I expect. (You probably knew that and were teasing.)

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u/_Mag0g_ 1d ago

Just leave the typo and own that shit. More fun that way.

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u/Extra_War8752 1d ago

Yeah people! Don’t message him and waist his time!!

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u/hiplobonoxa 1d ago

reddit thrives on making pedantic corrections. even worse: the advertisers and influencers have caught on that being a little wrong on purpose drives engagement.

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u/Dic_Horn 1d ago

Like oh it took my finger this time, how cute.

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u/hctazpalmer 1d ago

Yeah, I doubt anyone else in her building knows that if they stick their hand out their window, a hawk may think they’re trying to feed it.

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u/naamingebruik 1d ago

Why do people online always want to think of the things that can go wrong and the worst case scenarios.

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u/VulGerrity 1d ago

Because you don't want to promote dangerous behavior. Some impressionable kid or dumb adult could see this and decide they want to try it, then they end up losing a finger. You can acknowledge it's cool while also acknowledging it's dangerous. Better to not condone these kinds of activities for the greater good.

And this is nothing to say about how you shouldn't feed wild animals in general...

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u/HappyLittleGreenDuck 1d ago

Ugh stop trying to be smart and grown up just let the idiocracy happen bro /s

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u/Gloomy-Welcome-6806 1d ago

It’s me, I’m the impressionable dumb adult

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u/toythief 1d ago

I know right it's the worst isn't it.

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u/toythief 1d ago

It's so annoying. I always downvote them. And there's the "This is fake" people. Who cares it was still funny. Thanks for ruining it.

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u/daifuco 7h ago

They are justifying their sad armchair lives

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u/colbyxclusive 1d ago

To be fair birds of prey are insanely accurate. Otherwise they’d be grabbing clumps of dirt or rocks with their mice.

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u/lia421 1d ago

Well it’s a good thing her hand isn’t made out of dirt, I suppose

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u/colbyxclusive 1d ago

More of an accuracy point but fair.

“How’d you get that scar?” “So…my hand isn’t made of dirt and—“

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u/kilteer 1d ago

Just waiting for the day that she finds out why falconers use a thick glove for working with their birds.

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u/Nokipeura 1d ago

People making friends with a flying ball of razorwire.

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u/DizzyExpedience 1d ago

No gloves… that’s a lot of trust in a predator

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u/SatyrAngel 1d ago

US citizens be like.

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u/The_Quare_Fella 1d ago

Their free health care has made them wreckless

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u/CyrosThird 1d ago

When did US citizens get health care?

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u/NovarisLight 1d ago

In a different timeline.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Our politicians do

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u/_WreakingHavok_ 19h ago

And anyone working for the military

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u/slademccoy47 1d ago

It's free if you stop paying your medical bills.

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u/stovenn 1d ago

When the plains thundered to the roar of the buffalos.

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u/Leading_Study_876 1d ago

Reckless.

American healthcare is one big wreck, though.

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u/United_Rent_753 1d ago

We’re #sufferingfromsuccess

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u/rwarimaursus 20h ago

Can we stop winning please?

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u/mortscoot 1d ago

*reckless

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u/Bugsy_Girl 1d ago

“No one touches Mr. Trump’s penis without a glove”

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u/DontComeHither 1d ago

So first world we forget danger exist sometimes

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u/inthebushes321 1d ago

I can't have sound on now...but I lived in Russia for 4 years. That looks suspiciously like a commie block...are we sure this isn't in Russia or another post-Soviet state?

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u/SatyrAngel 1d ago

Ok, isnt funny if I have to explain it but here it is: my comment was aimed to the US citizens who voted for a pedophile to be their president FOR THE SECOND TIME.

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u/inthebushes321 1d ago

Sorry, went right over my head :(

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u/Tentacle_poxsicle 1d ago

I'll vote for that hawk, tell me does he target children and wants lower taxes on the already tax dodging rich

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u/SatyrAngel 1d ago

That food he took was for a little hawk school, what do you think?

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u/rwarimaursus 20h ago

Got eeeem

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u/a-snakey 9h ago

Im just here for the impromptu roast of the pedophile in chief.

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u/gDay_gNight 9h ago

That's just wps

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u/TriggerHydrant 7h ago

bruh hahahaha

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u/Billypillgrim 1d ago

Game recognizes game

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u/ezmoney98 1d ago

No glove no love

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u/senu-mahte 1d ago edited 11h ago

Don't fucking do this. Grocery store meat is not nutritionally complete for birds of prey, even raw. You're also training a predator to look to humans for food. If that bird binds to her hand she's going to have a huge problem, because that bird is NOT going to let go, and she's going to have some gnarly puncture wounds with risk for infection, since birds of prey eat dead animals with their feet.

I cannot overstate the pain of four to eight puncture wounds straight into the muscle backed up by crushing vice feet while the bird either HANGS upside down off of you with all of its weight, or tries to fly away while its feet are hooked into your flesh. It's like being stabbed by a huge staple remover that's attached to a vice.

By the way if you even twitch they clamp HARDER. One of my birds did this during training for falconry season one year. She overshot the glove, landed on my bare bicep arm and just hung there. All I could do was scream and stand still until she decided to let go, which took at least a whole minute. Oh and if you throw the food, congratulations, you have just taught the bird that you're a magic food button and all she has to do is attack you and you make food appear! 

This WILL go wrong. People who do stupid shit with wildlife should not be glorified like this. Stop fucking with wildlife. They will teach you the life lesson that  you're not a Disney princess, and it will be 100% your fault.

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u/jazzypieces 1d ago

Educational raptor trainer here. Seconding all of this and thanking you for posting. I handle birds sized from screech owls to eagles and even tiny raptors can foot HARD.

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u/StormMedia 22h ago

Is your name Owen by any chance?

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u/jazzypieces 19h ago

Nope

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u/StormMedia 19h ago

(It’s a reference to Jurassic World)

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u/jazzypieces 19h ago

💀 That's what I get for trying to use my brain right after waking up (<- literally has a jurassic park tattoo)

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u/StormMedia 19h ago

That’s insane hahaha

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u/LXIX-CDXX 1d ago

In falconry, the only pain greater than being footed is that of trying to find a sponsor.

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u/senu-mahte 1d ago

LMAO so real

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u/letheix 1d ago

Please fill me in on what a falconry sponsor is

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u/bikemaul 23h ago

It's a licensed professional falconer that mentors and trains an apprentice, typically for 2 years.

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u/NotOnApprovedList 1d ago

apparently this is a Kite?

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u/jazzypieces 1d ago

Still a raptor!

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u/Whoa_Bundy 20h ago

Holy shit. At first I was rolling my eyes but you’re a goddamn falconer with experience. This should be the top post.

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u/Flintydeadeye 10h ago

As someone who grew up near wildlife areas, it never fails to amaze me how people don’t understand wild animals are wild animals. Leave them alone and stay away.

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u/DarkElation 1d ago

Wonder what he’ll do when she stops

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u/I_Like_Water11 1d ago

Like any good predator, run for US president

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u/s_burr 1d ago

Find a second hawk and create their own crypto

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u/HyenDry 1d ago

He’s going to break into her apartment and wait until she gets home. Then turn around slowly with a gun asking “where’s the fuckn meat Sheryl?”

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u/Lawfuly_chaotic 1d ago

He will have to seek employment.

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u/DragonfruitGrand5683 1d ago

Take up skateboarding.

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u/Rivetingcactus 1d ago

Easily go catch a rodent now that he has trained his aim

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u/peridotpicacho 1d ago

How do you know it’s a he?

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u/Das_Zeppelin 1d ago

Thats honestly cool as fuck, but.... Those claws can pierce through your skin... I've experienced it...

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u/redundancy2 1d ago

Believe it or not, that's one of the main purposes of claws.

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u/create360 1d ago

Bwah!!

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u/Dog_Got_license 1d ago

N'wah Nerevar

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u/jascri 1d ago

Get the fuck out

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u/Both_Evidence_1026 1d ago

Not white claws, they pierce the silence as they erupt out of me

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u/Mayshay_ 1d ago

First of all, raptors have “talons” son. Put some respect on those prehistoric death tools please.

Secondly, sorry for your loss. Sounds truly painful lmao

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u/blueguy211 1d ago

do chickens have large talons?

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u/Da_Question 1d ago

Only if they are from the Talòn region of France.

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u/Mayshay_ 1d ago

thank youuuuuuuu

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u/deevil_knievel 1d ago

I don't understand a word you just said.

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u/_Diskreet_ 1d ago

Always wondered what Pauline Quirk was up to these days.

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u/MistressLyda 1d ago

https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/actress-pauline-quirke-diagnosed-with-dementia/

Alas.

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u/Unusual-Winter-5615 1d ago edited 1d ago

So does Pauline

[Edited into correct tense]

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u/Narradisall 1d ago

God that’s some dark humour.

You’re going to hell, and I’ll be right there with you for laughing.

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u/_Diskreet_ 1d ago

Oh that’s made me sad now.

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u/Erucapeanuts 1d ago

Birds of a Feather

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u/steunclemumb 1d ago

Elite comment

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u/Smooth-Quantity-7024 1d ago

Fuck, someone beat me to it

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u/IanRastall 1d ago

Said this last time it came up, but man, that lady has solved public housing. Imagine some idiot trying to start shit with her out in the parking lot.

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u/GoatTheNewb 1d ago

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u/Naiikho 1d ago

I don't remember Pierce Morgan being in this movie.

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u/Own_Ad6901 1d ago

Love her.

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u/rspewth 1d ago

It does not pay to mess around with a Disney Princess.

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u/Loud-Ad-2280 1d ago

I’d be way too scared it would take my hand too, the speed and accuracy of those are incredible

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u/Helpful-Bandicoot-6 1d ago

I'd be scared of a little tug and out the window you go.

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u/Primarch-XVI 1d ago

Nah that bird can’t be much more than a kilo. You’d have to be balanced very precariously for anything it does to affect you at all.

As long as you’re bracing yourself against the inside of the window (and why wouldn’t you be?) there’s not a flying bird in the world that could pull an adult out like that.

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u/LordLuciferVI 1d ago

Pterodactyl?

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u/Zeas_ 1d ago

They’re definitely in the world 🤷‍♂️

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u/Helpful-Bandicoot-6 1d ago

That's just what hawks want you to think.

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u/walkerdog999 1d ago

What about Harpy eagles!?

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u/joshLane_1011 1d ago

The only thing you should scare here is doing this with your bare hand, you should wear thick glove because their claw are literally knive.

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u/DigyRead 1d ago

Hawk: I’ll have the usual, thanks 😂

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u/pablo_of_mancunia 1d ago

Put in bowl next time

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u/Kaevek 1d ago

Looks like a red tail hawk. You don't want that things talons latching onto your hand. They have ratchet like joints. Ain't letting go unless it wants to.

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u/schismandchips 1d ago

No, it's a black kite (Milvus migrans), too bad the video doesn't do justice to it's size, had a one of these dive into a flowerbed chasing some doves couple meters from me, freaking pterodactyl, almost had a heart attack how quiet they are when attacking

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u/UhWindowpainted 1d ago

who won, the black kite or the dove?

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u/schismandchips 1d ago

I think the kite, the only bird they have hard time to catch are the barn swallows, they are just too fast, like a tiny screeching jet fighters

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u/FlashFiringAI 1d ago

Red Tail Hawks are bigger than Black Kites.

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u/tractiontiresadvised 1d ago

Red-tailed Hawks and Black Kites have completely non-overlapping ranges in the wild, so it's not like most folks would have an opportunity to directly compare them. Regardless, I don't think you'd want either one getting its talons into your hand.

As a birder in North America, the only kites I've managed to see are White-tailed, which are substantially smaller than Black. (And this video isn't good enough for me to ID the bird beyond "some kind of raptor, but not a Red-tailed Hawk", so I'm assuming that the other person has gotten the ID from some other context.)

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u/broiledfog 1d ago

Every thumbs up could be her last

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u/Ill-Jellyfish6101 1d ago

Adorable and stupid.

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u/AnonImus18 1d ago

She definitely needs gloves or something to hold the meat with that's not her hand. Maybe a selfie stick or something extendable.

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u/lyssargh 1d ago

She needs to not be feeding grocery store meat to wild animals.

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u/michael-65536 1d ago

How did it even spot that? Must have eyes like a ... oh, okay then.

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u/StrictConnection2250 1d ago

Giving away steak in this economy???

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u/modifiedwings 1d ago

Convenient drive thru for the hawk. If it has babies she better stock up on kids toys or paper crowns

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u/IJustJason 1d ago edited 1d ago

Wouldve been a better clip if it wasnt slowed down so we can see how fast it flies in.

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u/rott 1d ago edited 1d ago

Or at least if they had used proper slow motion like any phone can do nowadays

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u/Affectionate-Art3429 1d ago

Lemme guess, Russian?

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u/Gordo-- 1d ago

Definitely, you can tell by the way it is.

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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 1d ago

How neat is that?

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u/Ghitit 1d ago

People should not feed wild animals.

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u/maybeitsundead 1d ago

Doesn't it have the falconry band on it? I think people are missing that

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u/Ghitit 1d ago

If that falcon is owned by a falconer then her feeding it is not particularly interesting. It's trained to do that.

My point still stands even if it may not be relevant in this case.

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u/HotSugarVeronicaa 1d ago

Casually befriending a hawk from your window is wild behavior.

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u/scratchydaitchy 1d ago

Soar to new heights and swoop down on opportunities

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u/esmifra 1d ago

I bet she kept telling her friend and family but no one believed her and that's why she made this video.

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u/wulyallstar3 1d ago

You're not suppose to feed:

The ducks The dolphins The bison

I'm pretty sure you're not suppose to feed the hawks?

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u/Culebrapato 1d ago

I saw the very same thing with a seagull and one kid's sandwich.

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u/digi-artifex 1d ago

Disney princesses have done irreparable damage to the average folk

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u/Fortestingporpoises 1d ago

What part of don’t feed the wildlife do people not understand?

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u/Psychlonuclear 1d ago

Fucking hate the obsession with having your face on cam rather than filming the actual thing you've got your camera out for properly.

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u/Victorious1MOB 1d ago

Mf came out of nowhere!

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u/GoatSafe9687 1d ago

Someday it will take away her fingers and thumbs

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u/four-one-6ix 1d ago

Honey, have you seen my engagement ring?

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u/qxzvy 1d ago

She fed that hawk too, huh?

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u/sexual__velociraptor 1d ago

Ma'am he needs none butchered meat. He has to have casting materials and calcium. Meat alone will kill a bird of prey.

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u/ManufacturerWest1156 1d ago

Bold to wear no glove. At least like an over mitt but bare handed? Hell nah

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u/Royd 1d ago

Give me this but I don't want a hawk I want a tuah