What speeds can a falcon reach?
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wickedwillie
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"The speed of a [Peregrine] falcon has been said to reach 175 miles per hour or more. Experiments conducted by scientists put the bird's diving speed at approximately 82 miles per hour and level flight at approximately 62 miles per hour." [source http://www.ohiodnr.com/wildlife/falcons/facts.htm]
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The top diving speed ever clocked for a Peregrine Falcon is 200 MPH.
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I just went to read some on it, because I had been told it was the fastest animal on Earth, bar none, and 200 mph also. But there ARE places that say 175, and I found one that said 180. The reason I had learned was that they go really high, come down like a bullet- the way they're shaped enables them to do that. They ball up their little claws like a fist and dive down on top of it, hitting it 'fists' first, knock the prey right out of the sky, & if that doesn't kill it, it will knock it out and then they go eat it. I'm sure it says it somewhere. Going by what the bird handlers taught us- that the main prey is smaller birds. The shape of their bodies, in combo w/ their wing shapes, enables that to happen. She did tell up to look at the old cartoons, and remember the 'dive-bombing birds...! [no patience to read it all again, so just brought pics]
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