How big does a pelican type creature need to be to carry a grown up human inside its mouth and still fly?

as the title, my question is how big a pelican like creature with its pouch mouth need to be in order to carry grown up human and still fly.

since as far as i know hollow bone is to fragile for human to ride big flying creature on their back, and i want to know the possibility by carrying them using pelican type of mouth, beside i am not good with math and only know stone age physic at best.

if its not clear, i dont mean the pelican eat them or swallow them, but just carry them inside the pouch as a flying transportation, and i do at least think a way to make sure they dont accidentally get swallowed by using cormorant fishing method by tying their neck to make sure they dont swallow thing as big as human size while maybe i can incorporate it into a leash too to control the flying.

• the world is pretty much like earth

• its fine if the answer end up says its impossible in reality, but at least provide the math or physic of it to show of how absurd it will be.

• feel free to include or suggest alternative way if my method is impossible, (still related to the mouth) like for example carrying them like stork carrying baby either using cloth or basket like in this image.

from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_stork

and feel free to edit my grammar and the tag to the appropriate one, (though i appreciate it if this is not removed when you edit it, give other a chance to know that they are welcome to fix or edit this, because sometimes the edit is not perfect or still has some flaw)

posted over 4 years ago

Li Jun‭

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