Hawk diagnosed as 'too fat to fly' after overeating chickens and snoozing for weeks on end

New York Post · Ella Morrison · 2026-11-06 03:06 UTC

“The diagnosis: At over 910g [2 pounds] in weight, she was too darn fat to fly!” the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke wrote.

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An obese female hawk weighing a whopping 2 pounds was diagnosed as “too darn fat to fly” after a blissful few weeks of eating too many Virginia chickens and sleeping for hours on end.

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