Paraglider meets a black vulture! Cool🤭

[ttown]

Hitching a free ride it would seem

 

[Perplexed]

Looks like the bird has a strap around one leg. Trained to do that?

 

[RickN]

Looks like the bird has a strap around one leg. Trained to do that?

Probably tagged by some wildlife group.

 

[Perplexed]

Probably tagged by some wildlife group.

It looked like a leather strap, kind of like falconers use, not a labeled tag or radio transmitter - what did you think?

 

[RickN]

It looked like a leather strap, kind of like falconers use, not a labeled tag or radio transmitter - what did you think?

I could be wrong on this one but I have seen some use a plastic almost zip tie type thing. It looks leathery as it ages. You may be right, I am just going by what I have seen.

 

[ICanFixIt]

He'll never get the stink off of the hand he used to pet that vulture.

 

[sherrick13]

That is pretty cool.

 

[OKRuss]

I wonder if it's for hire? Asking for a friend.

Edit: I can't see the twitter. If the vulture isn't taking the paraglider down, disregard my above post!!

 

[Hawgman]

Meh... looks photoshopped.

 

[RickN]

I looked it up and they can be trained, but the wild ones also like to hitch a ride when they can. A few instances of them catching a ride on ultra lites, paragliders, etc.