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A very old, but still popular animal stereotype: a [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]] (usually an eagle, condor or a vulture) picks up a child or a small animal from the ground and carries it off to its nest to be eaten.
Mostly an [[Urban Legend]], since everything weighing more than 4 pounds is far [https://web.archive.org/web/20080821115902/http://www.american-bald-eagle-photos.com/american-bald-eagles-photos-general-information.htm too heavy] to be carried off by these birds, making this a case of [[Somewhere an Ornithologist Is Crying]]. They will prefer [[Vertical Kidnapping]] smaller animals. Yet, there have been many cases throughout history where babies or little children were merely [http://www.strangehistory.net/2010/11/05/baby-eating-eagles/ attacked by large birds], and some eagles are [http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/01/when-eagles-go-bad.html perfectly capable] of killing prey too large to actually carry off.
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Subtrope of [[Feathered Fiend]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Popeye]]'': The Witch has a giant vulture who picks up people and flies them to her.
* In ''[[Tintin
* In the ''[[Nero]]'' album "De Bende van de Zwarte Kous", a vulture picks up the child Petoetje and carries him off.
** The same happens to Nero's son, Adhemar, in the album ''"De Lolifanten"''.
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== [[Film]] ==
* It happened on film [[Older Than Radio|as early as 1907]] in [[Edwin S Porter]]'s "Rescued from an Eagle Nest". https://web.archive.org/web/20121126052430/http://focusfeatures.com/article/great_babies_of_history?film=babies
* In ''[[Popeye Meets Sindbad the Sailor]]'', a roc carries Olive Oyl away.
* In ''[[Jurassic Park]] III'', a ''Pteranodon'' carries off a human boy.
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== Literature ==
* In ''Dream Park'', guide Kasan Maibang is nearly carried off by a giant hornbill early in the South Seas Treasure Game.
* [[Warrior Cats
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' saw Momo carried off by a [[Mix
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Taung Child, the fossilized skull of an early hominid, was recently discovered to have been killed by an eagle.
* The Lawndale Incident. On July 25, 1977, a ten year old boy named Marlon Lowe was playing outside his home when an pair of gigantic birds flew overhead. One of them swooped down and snatched Marlon up, carried him a few feet, and then dropped him unharmed onto the ground after his mother chased after it shouting. This story would probably be less believable if there weren't at least seven witnesses present...
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