![]() ![]() Humans have long interacted with the Peregrine Falcon and one of the most well known of these interactions is falconry. In fact their name, Falco pergerinus, in Latin means foreign or exotic and was used to refer to a wanderer. Yet one more distinguishing fact is that they are prolific travelers during migration having one of the longest migrations of North American birds distancing from the Tundra to South America, a route of over 15,000 miles round trip. They are also amazing in the fact that they’re one of the most wide-spread birds in the world and are found on every continent except Antarctica. The force of their dive is so extreme that their prey is nearly always killed on impact and can even knock their head clean off. The Peregrine Falcon even has specially built baffles inside their nostrils that allows them to breath while at the same time blocking the wind that may otherwise rush in with such speed to burst their lungs. ![]() However when hunting they can hit nearly 70 miles per hour and during a dive they can reach the incredible speed of 200 miles per hour. They are the fastest bird in the world averaging over 30 miles per hour in regular flight. In Seattle, they have been watched in past years via a live webcam. In London they can be seen at the Tate during their nesting period where volunteers are on hand with telescopes for several hours every day. They are watched, monitored, talked about, written about, recorded and rescued in cities around the world. One of the most popular of urban birds has to be the Peregrine Falcon. ![]()
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