I'm Built for Speed

Some call me the jet fighter plane of birds. NB: the music has been changed in this video to avoid copyright infringement. The new music is Bach's Fugue in C Major, BWV 953.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• peregrine
• falcon
• faucon
• raptor
• bird
• wildlife
• nature
• pájaro

[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. :)

[Naturallyskeptic]

nice vid

[MyWildlifeVideos]

@Naturallyskeptic Thank you :)

[biospark64]

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

[perefalc98]

peregrines rock!

[INeedAManifesto]

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

[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.

[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

[ishotthesherifswife]

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

[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.

[WSPlumber]

it was a red tailed hawk.