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Video: Magnificent falcon: hunting bird
2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47
We all know from school that the eagle represents incredible strength, the hawk - deceit, and the falcon - the swiftness and irresistibility of the attack! Of all these predators, it is the falcon - the bird, as they say, the world! Let's talk about him.
As you know, the largest birds from the Falcon family are peregrine falcons, gyrfalcons and saker falcons. Falcon - lightning bird! He is very fast in his flight and is a virtuoso in aerial combat!
Thunderstorm
Falcons play in the air! It doesn’t cost them anything to overtake some duck or murre, to throw rather large geese, bustards to the ground, and also to cope with herons armed with sharp beaks! Ornithologists say that falconry is the aerobatics of this bird!
Debriefing
The attacking bird falcon (photo 2) is about two kilograms of steel muscles and simply indestructible bones, rushing at a crazy speed (more than 200 km / h)! The falcon inflicts its crushing blow with the whole body, as well as with clawed paws. Then the predator begins to slow down slightly in order to stay alive. Ornithologists observed how, after such a strike inFor some time, a "cloud" of feathers and fluff of the unfortunate victim still hovers in the air. Here he is so scary - this falcon!
Birds of prey from the Falcon family have the skills of different hunting techniques. For example, sometimes predators are engaged in patrolling the territory at a great height, and then they hit the prey that they have spotted from the air on the ground exactly at the target. All this is accompanied by a steep dive. Ornithologists conducted research and were amazed at the speed with which a diving predator rushes towards its prey. For example, the peregrine falcon does this at speeds up to 300 (!) km/h! This is mind-boggling! Can you imagine what would happen if these birds hunted people?
One beak is good, but two is even better
Falcon is a solitary bird, but in rare cases, large individuals practice paired hunting. How does this happen? One of them plans directly above the ground, and the other guards the prey in the sky. Then the lower falcon begins to lift the birds sitting on the ground up, trying to catch them. In fact, this is a cunning ploy aimed at confusing the poor fellows, confusing them. After that, a second predator, hovering above the ground, falls on the frightened birds that have taken off into the air! There is practically no chance of salvation for the victims.
Masters
Falcon - a bird that has no equal in air hunting! As mentioned above, these predators have a whole arsenal of all kinds of hunting techniques. Since ancient times, man has been exploiting the hunting capabilities of the peregrine falcon. This allowed falconers withusing your "pets" to get hares, ducks, pheasants, partridges.
Falconry is considered a very ancient occupation. After all, peregrine falcons have existed on our planet for a very long time. In addition, they have no natural enemies. The bird is ubiquitous and, provided there is no human hunting for it, it can exist even in large cities. For example, in Moscow, peregrine falcons nest on the roof of Moscow State University, located on Sparrow Hills.
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