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Whatever the bustard might be, he doesn’t have a 25’ wingspan or weigh 200 lbs. For that matter, the teratorn is more like a scaled up berkut and not a scaled up bustard, and the size limit for berkuts is in fact around 25 lbs. At that size berkuts begin to have problems taking off.


130 posted on 02/23/2014 6:32:54 AM PST by varmintman
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varmintman: "teratorn is more like a scaled up berkut and not a scaled up bustard, and the size limit for berkuts is in fact around 25 lbs."

In fact, the closest living relatives to ancient Teratorns would be modern Condors, whose 10-foot wings support 33 lbs in flight.
Wing-load on a 25-foot wing Argentavis would be the same at around 165 lbs.
Argentavis are estimated circa 158 pounds.

138 posted on 02/23/2014 12:39:28 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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