I'm Built for Speed

[INeedAManifesto]

the music sounds like a Wendy Carlos arrangement of Bach for synthesizer...

[gld1010]

You should hear what it sounds like when a Falcon takes out a pigeon in mid-air. It is quite a thump. Most of the time, the pigeon isn't dead but stunned until the falcon kills it on the ground. We were at the right place at the right time to watch a wild falcon hunt the pigeon. I clapped as the flying rat was devoured by nature's Fighting Falcon. I would love to watch a wild Harris Hawk pack hunt in real life.

[ChaosBW]

Built for speed when diving yes, but when actually flying the Peregrine Falcon is not the fastest.

swifts are faster.

and if talking in proportion the humming bird is the fastest.

[MyWildlifeVideos]

@ChaosBW You are right. We're talking diving speed here. :)

[ishotthesherifswife]

@MyWildlifeVideos my falconers friend' dad told me he was flying a pere in scotand, a GOLDIE CAME OUT and over took there peregrin

[domonic0]

@ChaosBW you dont go fast swerving left and right you go fast in a straight line and thats what that bird does go fast in a straight line

[ChaosBW]

@domonic0 actually no it doesn't, the falcon is quite slow, it can even be outrun by a pigeon.

the falcon gets all it's speed with gravity, and I could fall faster then a falcon, so if people consider falling flying that means I can fly faster then a falcon.

[WSPlumber]

it was a red tailed hawk.

[Naturallyskeptic]

nice vid

[MyWildlifeVideos]

@Naturallyskeptic Thank you :)

[witjunkie]

Cooper's Hawk at 2:02. Merlin at 2:55.

[jewforgsoc]

@witjunkie pretty sure that was a red-tailed.

[MyWildlifeVideos]

I have to go back to look - but if I identify a bird incorrectly, I'm glad to have viewers point that out.

[MyWildlifeVideos]

Thanks for this information-- sometimes I miss on the identification and appreciate corrections here.

[falcoperegrinus82]

Red-tailed Hawk at 2:02, Merlin at 2:55.

[mealy777]

I would admire a graceful swan on a lake, or a Blackbird's song in spring, or the many swallows that fill the sky in summer, but never a Peregrine tearing to bits a smaller bird than itself.

[KOs231]

Thats an odd and wierd bird. Most birds of prey feed on other animals but this one feeds on other birds...Its like a wolf that hunts and eats dogs, foxes and cayotes..

[silentian85]

Most birds of prey eat other birds!

[falcoperegrinus82]

Whats so odd and weird about it? Many raptor species specialize on birds.  Many humans eat other mammals so whats the difference?

[Fat9090]

WOW

[lkdcombat]

beautiful creature hope god saves it for hundreds of years to come its so lovely

[WSPlumber]

At 2 mins 55....pere/lanner?

[falcoperegrinus82]

I think it's a Merlin.

[WSPlumber]

Whats with the redtail @ 2mins 2? Just for variety? lol

[mithlord]

this bird kickass, but that dang song dont fit for it, but some shred guitar

[tunkki321]

Kickass-bird! Effortlessly 389km/h (242MPH for you medieval-measures-gnomes).

Nature has It's ways!

[perefalc98]

peregrines rock!

[biospark64]

I LOVE Peregren Falcons!!!!!!!!!

[bentnosewp]

Falcon neegars fly highest.

Praise to the council of neegars and everlasting situps

[FlickBooger]

niggers?

[DJFALCON5]

Yeah falocn for life

[LIONSTRONG4242]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[shelleycorbin]

thanks for the video, but i must confess the music was lousy, fit for songbirds, not raptors clocking 300 mph speeds.

[MyWildlifeVideos]

The fastest speed on record so far is under 240 MPH.  Not bad for a bird!

[wushuwunder]

d00d its actually 242. just saw a video about it.

[5burowz]

no actual proof of it going that fast. I've yet to see an accurate measuring on the bird's speed. Sorry.

[Roefeltje]

In this vid they claim the bird did 242 mph/389 kmph. I trust them.

[Kitsune]

Peregrines divebomb at around 120 mph, if I recall.

[POKEMONF2000]

@Kitsune no,they divebomb at 200 mph!!

[RadoxRedux]

iv seen 1 dive boom there so fast

[Needsmoreritalin]

Love these birds. Incredible to watch. I see a pair that nest under a bridge in Portland. The female is very vocal!

[Kakarot20007]

Cwl video & awesome pics, the song was a bit annoyin though O.o lol

[bubbaUK]

Its a fact this is the fastest bird in flight! The Peregrine Falcon

[RnBramwell]

DDT was banned in 1972. Biologists said lingering DDT would keep harming bird pop'n for 10-15 years. Yet, by 1975 raptors recovered significantly--so DDT did not linger or was not the problem!

Worse, by 1972 DDT had reduced annual *human* malaria mortality to less than a thousand people a year. Now 1.1-2.7 million *humans* die (mostly children), so environmentalists could, perhaps, maybe, save birds. Nazi concentration camps only killed ~1 million Jews a year.

Bring back DDT; use wisely.

[cheegum]

Wow nice pics.. i was expecting a high adrenaline video but the pics and the bits of info were good too :) Never knew that DDT did that to eggshells :/

And yes i guessed the name because i learnt about this bird just last night! On a PBS show called Nature: Raptor Force. Thanks for posting