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The peregrine falcon reaches faster speeds than any other animal on the planet when performing the stoop, [5] which involves soaring to a great height and then diving steeply at speeds of over 320 km/h (200 mph), hitting one wing of its prey so as not to harm itself on impact. [4]
Considered the fastest animal on earth, peregrine falcons dive on their prey at speeds up to 200 mph, capturing them in flight. Prey is snatched out of the air or knocked senseless.
Peregrine falcon: 389 km/h (242 mph) 108 m/s (354 ft/s) [1] [7] Flight-diving The peregrine falcon is the fastest aerial animal, fastest animal in flight, fastest bird, and the overall fastest member of the animal kingdom. The peregrine achieves its highest velocity not in horizontal level flight, but during its characteristic hunting stoop ...
This is a list of the fastest flying birds in the world. A bird's velocity is necessarily variable; a hunting bird will reach much greater speeds while diving to catch prey than when flying horizontally. The bird that can achieve the greatest airspeed is the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), able to exceed 320 km/h (200 mph) in its dives.
Peregrine falcons are well-known as birds of prey that can fly extremely fast and travel long distances. Peregrines have been timed in stoops, or steep dives, at speeds of 200 miles per hour ...
A pair of peregrine falcon parents are raising three chicks along Chicago's busy Wacker Drive, and beware to any pedestrian who ventures too closely to their nest. Just ask Chuck Valauskas, who ...
A large falcon, it preys on birds and bats. [2] Most likely either the lanner or peregrine falcon was the sacred species of falcon to the ancient Egyptians, [3] and some ancient Egyptian deities, like Ra and Horus, were often represented as a man with the head of a lanner falcon.
Shaheen falcon, miniature by Mansur. Mughal India, early 17th-century. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya. The shaheen falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator) is a non-migratory subspecies of the peregrine falcon found in southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to southeastern China.