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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.
It is the fastest mammal in the world and one of the fastest flying animals on level flight. Cheetah: 109.4–120.7 km/h (68.0–75.0 mph) [d] The cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 96.6 km/h (60.0 mph) in under three seconds, [58] though endurance is limited: most cheetahs run for only 60 seconds at a time. [19]
The saker falcon is the second fastest bird in level flight after the white-throated needletail swift (unconfirmed), capable of reaching 150 km/h (93 mph). It is also the third fastest animal in the world overall after the peregrine falcon and the golden eagle , with all three species capable of executing high speed dives known as "stooping ...
Numerous subspecies of Falco peregrinus have been described, with 18 accepted by the IOC World Bird List, [36] and 19 accepted by the 1994 Handbook of the Birds of the World, [11] [12] [37] which considers the Barbary falcon of the Canary Islands and coastal North Africa to be two subspecies (F. p. pelegrinoides and F. p. babylonicus) of Falco ...
It was reported for many years that Cephenemyia was the fastest of all flying insects, cited by The New York Times [5] and Guinness Book of World Records as traveling at speeds of over 800 miles per hour (1,300 km/h). [6] (For comparison, the speed of sound in air is 768 mph (1,236 km/h).)
Austrophlebia costalis, the southern giant darner, is a species of dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae [3] endemic to eastern Australia. [1]Austrophlebia costalis is an enormous dark dragonfly with strong yellow markings on its body and a brown band along the leading edge of its wings. [4]
High-speed trains offer greener alternatives to short-haul flights. From China’s floating Maglev trains to France’s border busting TGVs, these are the fastest railway services you can ride today.
Although it is widely thought that Quetzalcoatlus reached the size limit of a flying animal, the same was once said of Pteranodon. The heaviest living flying animals are the kori bustard and the great bustard with males reaching 21 kilograms (46 lb). The wandering albatross has the greatest wingspan of any living flying animal at 3.63 metres ...