Whoa those birds are fast!

Cam on back of falcon in this video.

Watch this slow motion about 1:50 in this video. O M G!

You do find some amazing videos, Patticake. This one is an awesome example of the peregrine's ability to dive bomb it's prey.

Still shots of Peregrine Falcon catching it's prey.

Uploaded on Sep 15, 2011
While I took video (see 'Peregrine falcons catch a pigeon' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y4pMG... ) on a Sanyo Xacti VPC-FH1, Dr Rob Davies took these photographs with his Canon EOS 1D Mark IV and 500mm F4 Lens.

These people are crazy. Got to be a better way.

They may be crazy, but Lady is one awesome raptor!

Is a falcon a raptor? We've always believed so, but maybe not like a hawk or eagle. Maybe a falcon is in a class of its own? Maybe closer to a parrot than a hawk?

"Recent genetic studies found that falcons are much more closely related to songbirds than to other “hawks”—quite a jolt to our traditional belief. According to this research, falcons' closest relatives are a group (or "clade") consisting of the parrots and the passerines. As a result, the new Check-list sequence inserts Falconiformes (caracaras and falcons) and Psittaciformes (parrots) between Piciformes (woodpeckers) and Passeriformes (songbirds). These major revisions show us once again that as scientific knowledge improves, long-standing taxonomic sequences are not sacrosanct."

Here's the latest on the taxonomy of falcons:

http://blog.aba.org/2012/07/new-aou-chec...anges-2012.html

Quote: raptorz4ever wrote in post #16

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Is a falcon a raptor? We've always believed so, but maybe not like a hawk or eagle. Maybe a falcon is in a class of its own? Maybe closer to a parrot than a hawk?

"Recent genetic studies found that falcons are much more closely related to songbirds than to other “hawks”—quite a jolt to our traditional belief. According to this research, falcons' closest relatives are a group (or "clade") consisting of the parrots and the passerines. As a result, the new Check-list sequence inserts Falconiformes (caracaras and falcons) and Psittaciformes (parrots) between Piciformes (woodpeckers) and Passeriformes (songbirds). These major revisions show us once again that as scientific knowledge improves, long-standing taxonomic sequences are not sacrosanct."

Here's the latest on the taxonomy of falcons:

http://blog.aba.org/2012/07/new-aou-chec...anges-2012.html

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Here's a fascinating article written by my hero Bryan Watts about CCB's efforts to move peregrine falcons from bridges to the safety of the mountains.

http://www.ccbbirds.org/2014/09/24/team-...campaign=buffer

Here's an interesting article about Dr. Irene Pepperberg and her research into avian cognition. Although Dr. P works with gray parrots, and this is not raptor specific, her work still extends the realm of possibilities to any avian species. It's just downright fascinating!

http://www.readmeblogsite.net/2015/03/27...harper-collins/