FYI to everyone: a 20% kill rate is actually extremely high in nature. Your average predator has a 5-10% kill rate at most. So that makes the Peregrine an excellent hunter.
@@SexyFace 20% is not low as fuck.. please consider a serial killer with a 20% success rate. would you consider that low? i don’t think so. there’s 6.8 billion people in this world and in a city you encounter more than 5 people a day, if he’s successful 20% of the time, he can kill everyday for life. picture this as a fucking bird with wings in a 3d hunting realm. it is VERY high
I work with a peregrine falcon for our Greater Yellowstone Raptor Experience at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, and have fallen in love with these birds! National Geographic has clocked their Peregrine in a stoop (dive) at 242 miles per hours, plus they can handle a 25 G force when turning out of their dive. A human would pass out at 10Gs. An amazing, and beautiful raptor.
It's amazing how these falcons catch prey in midair, really, considering the speed both birds are going and their small size. The element of surprise is absolutely necessary for the peregrine's success because if that pigeon sees the approach, it has a lot of room to maneuver to escape, and in all three dimensions too. For the falcon it's almost like trying to hit a bullet with a bullet. Considering all factors, it's incredible how they manage to even catch anything at all. Their perception and reaction time must be absolutely cutting-edge to be able to do that. Animals are brilliant!
Dat pigeon tho...... "Nope, you can dive for 30 seconds at 200 mph but all i have to do is shimmy to the side and you're epic dive is a waste. I'm the real star of the show".
@@AR-iu9jv Pigeon poop isn't the problem. Its Seagull shit that's the real problem. A single Seagull can produce a copious amount of shit in a single evacuation - a few times I've come out of the office of one of our clients on the coast and found an enormous gunky (and acidic) white/black splodge on the paintwork - so large you can't help but say 'For fuck sake!' when you see a Seagull has played target practice with your car 🤣🤣Always looks unsightly to be driving around with Seagull shit on ones car!!
Honestly, even a 20% kill right is much higher than I'd though ur be. Truly impressive considering the pigeon is moving in left, right, up down, and side to side. Also really accurate for going at such high speeds and aiming for a relatively fast creature. Absolutely magnificent, please dont let these animals go extinct
They are magnificent! I once spotted a bird flying toward me, level with the treetops. In the time it took to raise the camera to my face and take a shot, it was gone. Enlarging the photo revealed the blur was a peregrine. I'll never forget the excitement of witnessing a bird so swift.
Ahmad X All birds have 2 sets of eyelids. They can sleep with their eyes open to avoid predators, and in the case of aquatic birds, to see under water when looking for food.
"Sir, I still couldn't get the right footage for the Peregrine. Another day wasted." "Damn it, Gonzalez! BBC needs this episode in by Thursday-- This. Thursday!" "Sorry, boss. This is really tough. They only have a 20% strike rate, you know." "Ah, to hell with it, we'll just splice in one of these fifty clips of failed attempts..."
Cut me some slack, BBC. London is full of pigeons and I am by no means "desperate" to feed my chicks. You gotta admit I am an awesome flying machine and I just barely missed the bugger...meanwhile, I'll admire the view while planning my next attack....
to much to risk, he comes down at 200mph , but doesn't mean he can turn on a dime. if the pigeon sees and makes a small dodge in the right direction hats all it takes
Gabriel Rodriguez I'd imagine any falcon would prove to be more agile than a dumpy little pigeon. They aren't exactly brisk flyers. I'd have to go with Vicariously Thru-Kay on this and assume the Peregrine misses most of its prey because it can't change its acceleration into a vertical U-turn to give chase before the spooked pigeon is long gone.
The wing beats per second of the average peregrine is a lot faster than this video shows. They fly a lot more like slightly slower versions of swifts when they aren't engaged in a dive.
I regularly climb at a cliff (the Gunks) where peregrines nest. To truly appreciate one of these dive stoops, you have to see it from 100 feet up the side of a mountain! They have a very distinct call, and the moment I heard one nearby, I looked around to see one dive past me (no more than 20 away!) It looked like a grey missile about a foot and a half long. I didn't see an explosion of feathers at the bottom of its stoop, so I guess no dinner. It is truly a delight to share the cliffs with these magnificent, intelligent and slightly scary birds.
That must be an impressive sight but it's much better to see one one of these bad boys hit their prey. I used to work in a high rise building in Philly where they use Peregrine Falcons for pigeon control, and I've witnessed quite a few times where they've hit their mark...puff and a bunch of feathers and no more pigeon...a very impressive sight. To all those idiots who were not impressed by the 20% kill rate, I ask how many wartime fighter pilots have been known to have a kill rate of even half that of the Peregrine Falcon.
Bird of Prey eye structure is actually pretty cool, while humans have 1 fovea centralis (the spot on your retina that gives you the ability to "focus"on something) most birds of prey actually have 2. In addition to this the density of light receptors in a birds eye can be anywhere from 2-8 times as much as a humans (depending on the species). These two things in combination with several other factors give them incredible vision, hence calling someone with good sight a "hawk-eye".
The only thing the Peregrine Falcon is missing, is a few miniature AIM-120C and AIM-9 missiles, and maybe a JDAM, then I reckon it would be able to fly solo missions, over Afghanistan.
Bryan Allen peregrine are by definition not perfect hunters, because they have almost disappeared everywhere and are only introduced artifcially in most areas, forcibly breeding them and putting them in towers / churches / high rise builings without human help peregrine would have been long extinct often times when peregrine are reintroduced into the wild, they do not survive, the wild rock pigeons and other birds are able to tumble and avoid many of their attacks, the city pigeons are out of their reach since peregrine don't do that well in cities because they are bad at scavenging unlike crows and pigeons, smaller songbirds are hard to find in the winter since people feed them in areas where peregrine don't want to go, you'll sometimes see a sparrowhawk in urban areas, rarely a peregrine unless it is forcibly introduced there, w in which case it rarely survives that is not the case for animals like several other birds of prey, there's no programs to reintroduce buzzards for example, since they do fine on thier own, unlike peregrine they don't depend on other birds to survive, they just need an open field and they have very good success hunting there
This is more common than you think. Nature knows best. The nose of a Japanese bullet train is based on a kingfisher’s beak to reduce air pressure for when leaving tunnels
These falcons are awesome! In the city I live in on top of one of the buildings there's a huge nest area & a camera because there are 2 peregrine falcons who return every spring! The female (Wilma, my husband's name for her lol) lays her eggs usually 4 then Wilma & the male (of course I had to name him Fred lol) we get to watch them care for these eggs, see them hatch & watch the babies grow! It's so amazing & the baby Peregrines are beyond cute! They are these balls of white fluffy feathers & HUGE talon feet! Unfortunately around the end of June the babies leave the nest for good & Wilma & Fred also leave until the end of March of the next year & they start the whole process over again! These are beautiful Falcons & the 9 months they are gone my husband & I miss them very much!! We love nature & all species in nature!!
Wilma & Fred have left & the babies (now considered full grown) left 2 days ago! Wilma & Fred were excellent falcon parents & the last of the babies left the nest for the last time Friday afternoon! I can't wait for the end of next March when the falcons return! I miss them already
This video is total proof against evolution whether or not they intended it to be, just think about it. It has the perfect design for just about everything it needs, how would it evolve these traits, much less learn how to use them.
Ok first natural selection isn't actually proof of evolution, if you think about Darwin's finches, none of them actually changed species, their beaks just varied in shape a little. Did you know that Charles Darwin himself actually thought that what some evolutionists use as a main proof(fossils) were one of the main proofs that evolution was fake? This greatly troubled him. Also if the peregrine falcon evolved these traits slowly, its lungs would have exploded from the dives. As the video said, the nose parts were the only things keeping this from happening. In fact the idea of evolution is so unlikely evolutionists use "Hopeful monsters" as a theory, meaning the idea that a T-Rex had a baby bird and cared for it until it grew up. The odds of this happening are extremely low and the odds of two of the being bord are astronomical. I'm not trying to hate on evolutionism, I'm just trying to tell people about God.
Anything diving toward earth will reach high speeds...of course. But the peregrine is built for it. Other birds would die. Just sad that the peregrine can't fly that fast in a horizontal plane, she's just a normal bird then.
They are still one of the fastest in level flight but don't forget, it's not just one or the other. They use their height advantage in 3 dimensional space, to build up speed that others can't match, and then TRANSLATE that momentum in other directions. They can dive down at shallower angles, still at very high speed. They can use a more vertical dive to build up momentum, catch up to something, then if necessary, swoop back up using that momentum to catch the prey. They are jet fighters of the bird world.
Why is that sad? What would be the need to fly that fast in level flight. Birds usually only travel in level flight when migrating. All other times they are flying an an an upward or downward angle. Therefore the best tactic for a bird of prey is to attack unseen from behind and above and use the height to build up speed to cut down on the time to reach their target. This increases the chance of striking before the target bird has time to detect and evade the attack. BTW. The Peregrine Falcon is no slouch in level flight. I've read that they've been clocked at about 7o mph, which puts it up there among the fastest. 0valle0
The peregrine falcon should develop the ability to set fire to its farts during a dive to give it an afterburner effect so it can go faster and improve upon that 20% strike rate.
1:39 How is it possible the pigeon has detected the falcon at 100 meters/seconds ? Has it a trick ? Is it the displacement of air ? A sound caused by the falcon ? Simple luck of the pigeon because he has changed its fly at the good moment ?
When i was a kid i love pet pigeons so much and i used to see the Falcon just like a bad enemy to me, i always cry when the Falcon strikes on my pigeons, But now i own a company called Falcon - I love Falcon Know "amazing quality" a lonely creature and so focused.
Quite a sensational glide, I would have loved to listen to the sound emitted by the wings in this swoop, I was once lucky to witness a successful one,(here in Africa); just before the impact, the wings made a whistling screech almost like the rubber-tarmac way.
My favoirate animal was the peregrine falcon since I was 7, and my stupid friend thinks a cheetah is faster than it, even though ive lold him cheetahs go 112mph
Reminds me of how Shoaib Akhtar covered a long distance for his bowling run-up, generated insane pace and hurtled the cricket ball over the pitch with all his might... only for Rahul Dravid to defend it.
Fasullo Daniel Uh, no. Peregrines have been recorded in stoop at over 240mph. So...200mph is not the terminal velocity. Not sure why you were questioning the question.
Gangly1 I think it depends on the shape of the body that is falling since terminal velocity is the speed at which you are no longer accelerating downward. If you are spread out like a man in a wingsuit, you would reach terminal velocity at a much lower speed because of the greater area to air resistance ratio versus being as thin as possible vertically. Overall more drag equals lower terminal velocity. The peregrine falcon can easily surpass the speed said in the video by simply changing its shape in a way that creates even less drag.
Quite a grand entrance, for an epic fail ending.. Don't misunderstand, i love perigrine falcons more than any other bird in the world.. But couldn't they shoot something that he actually gets the prey?
Props to the cameraman for getting us shots in the nostrils, eyelids, and especially reaching a terminal velocity of 200mph, going faster than even the peregrine falcon herself.
Old video but just think, they couldn’t even get accurate footage of the drop. 20% doesn’t matter if they have the stamina to do It 20x a day. That falcons stomach is full. Perfect evolution.
Look at the way the falcon goes! It will put some ultimate Fighter Jets to shame. This shows how weak Humans are, physically. There is nothing superhuman about them(Peregrine). Anyone(ordinary) attempting this dive(at this speed) will surely have a heart attack, if not trained properly(fighter pilots). This little wonder is doing it without any equipment, and they talk & brag about man made Fighter aircrafts doing super-maneuvers. The bird along with Golden Eagles, Gyrfalcons (and pigeons)are true natural wonders, engineering marvels and I dare say, ultimate Flying Machines (yes the pigeon, it can have sustained flights for longer period)!
Not to mention, that one false move could not only result in going hungry, but diving at that speed could result in broken wings and just falling to earth. I love Falcons, they are beautiful birds and I would love to have the privilege to train one
Archer Girl Unfortunately, not related to this, but what has happened in Indonesia, is an example. RIP! That said, I have been following falconry, but dont know where to begin as well.
Falcon.. pissed at the end... not getting her kill... "what the hell are you lookin at?" lol... but seriously a good clip.. how could they film it... awesome!
All this clear design inside a single bird and we still reject the idea that the universe was designed by an intelligent creator. Sure, we build our own designs by stealing idea's from creation, since we clearly see the 'why' in its design. We can tell why the beak of this particular bird was made to resist enormous speeds, for instance. But we still believe the universe and everything in it was created by coincidence. By "nature" as if "nature" somehow had a consciousness. It baffles me.
Deo Volente It did not start as a cutting edge flying machine.....it evolved that way....like how we used to have tails and now we don't....hence THE TAIL BONE.....you should probably take a class in DNA sequencing to understand the basics
+Ameretat010 I never spoke about natural selection though, so why would you answer that way? Natural selection is a process which we can see and measure and yes of course this exists. But what I said was something entirely different: "But we still believe the universe and everything in it was created by coincidence" This speaks about "creation" not any form of evolution. How things came into being to start with, functioning to begin with, having specific tools for specific reasons. I'm less interested in what they now have due to natural selection. They simply have this now for some reason but why can they have it and why were they made with (perhaps previous) tools to begin with? Can it be explained by a big bang alone? Or should a clear design always have a designer?
+Ameretat010 You assume that the creator would be constantly creating, when you speak of His mistakes that would be made if He were the creator. That's again a misrepresenation of what I said. Again: I believe in natural selection. I just don't believe what you believe about the very start of everything. That is a different issue entirely. What I mean is that you seem overlook the world view of the theist, wherin God could have created the beings and set in motion the process we are now monitoring. That animals naturally select and change from those "choices" sure ... but how did they come into being? And how much of something has had to be in there for current designed features to come out? Should it not have already been there? Isn't that what natural selection is: to work with what is already present? For instance don't I as a white man already have the needed genes to be a black man, already present inside of my gene mapping? Yes I do.
Where do you go to learn about handling falcons? It is on my bucket list, I have always loved birds thanks to my grandpa. And have always wanted to learn about how to take care of them.
Just look it up online. It is not cheap and it takes a lot of time. Especially your first year doing so. You basically have to look at it like a job. You will be spending every spare second you have with your falcon as they are an extension of you. It sounds like a cool thing to do and I am not saying you are taking it lightly but I looked into it because I love birds and have always been fascinated about being a falconer but my shcedule does not permit the time the bird needs.
Cool, just saw my first Peregrine Falcon in the wild today, was just sitting on a power pole but did get a good shot of him (camera shot) flew away but it was pretty leisurely, hoping to go back today and see if it's feeding time.
What actually happened is that the camera crew couldn't get a footage of the peregrine catching the prey so they made up a story about how it's the bird's fault and not the useless camera crew.
You would think if the falcon hit it's prey at 200 mph that they would both die. Maybe that's why there's only a 20% kill ration because if the falcon strikes it's prey just a tad bit wrong it could kill them both and the falcon doesn't to risk a bad strike until it's just perfect.
+999KMX They wouldn't hit them at that speed. They use their speed to catch up to the prey, but if they were going too fast, they would open their wings a tiny bit, just before reaching the bird, to slow down to an appropriate speed for impact. They still hit damn hard and I once heard one hit a duck so hard, it was literally like a gunshot.
that's the beauty of nature, even pigeons developed the hability to cut from scratch the flight mechanics, hence, altering completly the trayectory, thus making the falcon calculations useless (because at that speed there's little it can do about maneuverig) .... awsome
YEEESSS! YOUR GOING DOWN PIGEON!Intense build up and music plays, about to strike the pigeon, aaaaaaannndd…The Pigeon says "NOT TODAY!" And dodges the attack… :(
Beautifully captured...thanks for catching the dive..furious speed..really amazing...god made marvels....salute to god .. Disbelievers will still not believe
What a beautiful bird, but I sure wish this video captured mama bird catching the pigeon so she could feed her chicks. But then again, I love pigeons too- had one as a pet when I was a child and boy are they smart.
FYI to everyone: a 20% kill rate is actually extremely high in nature. Your average predator has a 5-10% kill rate at most. So that makes the Peregrine an excellent hunter.
fun fact: the dragon fly is the most effective hunter in nature, catching almost 95% of its prey
African wild dogs have a much higher rate
@@jokofulu they also act as a pack, and use highly intelligent coordinated methods. making it an unfair comparison to solo predators
@@SexyFace 20% is not low as fuck.. please consider a serial killer with a 20% success rate. would you consider that low? i don’t think so. there’s 6.8 billion people in this world and in a city you encounter more than 5 people a day, if he’s successful 20% of the time, he can kill everyday for life. picture this as a fucking bird with wings in a 3d hunting realm. it is VERY high
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All the hype and then the pidgeon is like NOPE.
Njoy32Gaming hhh was perfect
Every once in a while, the dorky nerd is able to dodge the ball thrown by the junior high stud muffin.
That just means she gets to do again. Sounds brilliant to me.
it fooled me
A tip: you can watch series at flixzone. Been using them for watching lots of of movies recently.
I work with a peregrine falcon for our Greater Yellowstone Raptor Experience at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, and have fallen in love with these birds! National Geographic has clocked their Peregrine in a stoop (dive) at 242 miles per hours, plus they can handle a 25 G force when turning out of their dive. A human would pass out at 10Gs. An amazing, and beautiful raptor.
25Gs?? 😳😳
Humans pass out before 10Gs. Only some can handle 10 and even then, they will pass out after a few seconds.
@@buddyjimsdroneadventures7416 Mexico
and STILL get dodged by a pidgeon LOL
@@jackiechan6460 Can you explain what is a gforce? is it sth like nvidia gforce?
That's what you call a million dollar move with a ten cent finish lol
Mithilesh Kuncham
*Speed*- 100
*Accuracy*- 20
*Stealth*- 45
Reminds me of my ex.
Ha ha. I guess pigeon is still the king of the rooftops.
Spend all your skills points on one move
@@MrTachyon3000 I haven't seen any piegion from a long time, they are terminating
It's amazing how these falcons catch prey in midair, really, considering the speed both birds are going and their small size. The element of surprise is absolutely necessary for the peregrine's success because if that pigeon sees the approach, it has a lot of room to maneuver to escape, and in all three dimensions too. For the falcon it's almost like trying to hit a bullet with a bullet. Considering all factors, it's incredible how they manage to even catch anything at all. Their perception and reaction time must be absolutely cutting-edge to be able to do that. Animals are brilliant!
And they do all that without a plethora of computers costing tens of millions
This is insane animals on earth never cease to amaze me everything’s built different
@@choatejr3 yea evolution is so cool
I wish i was born as that falcon instead of useless piece of $hit humans. Humans stink yuckkk.
@@AquaPrince27😂🤣
Dat pigeon tho...... "Nope, you can dive for 30 seconds at 200 mph but all i have to do is shimmy to the side and you're epic dive is a waste. I'm the real star of the show".
lol
I'm pretty sure the hawk got the pigeon anyway
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess it’s a falcon not a hawk lol
"He's listing lazily to the left!"
"Boy, this guy knows some maneuvers..."
Peregrines are actually the most maneuverable when they're at speed, so this video was a little deceiving.
"The Pigeon spotted her", nah the pigeon just changed its mind about where to drop a poop.
Lmao right no way it saw her
Yeah as always on my car
@@AR-iu9jv Pigeon poop isn't the problem. Its Seagull shit that's the real problem. A single Seagull can produce a copious amount of shit in a single evacuation - a few times I've come out of the office of one of our clients on the coast and found an enormous gunky (and acidic) white/black splodge on the paintwork - so large you can't help but say 'For fuck sake!' when you see a Seagull has played target practice with your car 🤣🤣Always looks unsightly to be driving around with Seagull shit on ones car!!
Pigeons don't really poop mid-air. They prefer doing it while perched
That anticlimax...
20% is still a much higher hit rate than most other predators.
Honestly, even a 20% kill right is much higher than I'd though ur be. Truly impressive considering the pigeon is moving in left, right, up down, and side to side. Also really accurate for going at such high speeds and aiming for a relatively fast creature. Absolutely magnificent, please dont let these animals go extinct
Don't tell the chinese people those falcons'meat is an aphrodisiac. Tell them and it's over for the falcons.
They are magnificent! I once spotted a bird flying toward me, level with the treetops. In the time it took to raise the camera to my face and take a shot, it was gone. Enlarging the photo revealed the blur was a peregrine. I'll never forget the excitement of witnessing a bird so swift.
They got there own windsheid wipers lol
that really funny
Ahmad X All birds have 2 sets of eyelids. They can sleep with their eyes open to avoid predators, and in the case of aquatic birds, to see under water when looking for food.
Their*
Fr tho 😂 But then again that’s basically what all eyelids are so I guess we have em too lol
@@johnsmith_1942 dude stfu it’s called a typo lol
All that build up for nothing. :/
Life.
Even humans their shot at an animal with a gun.
shedvil1985 true lol
i feel like somebody needs to throw in a "thats what she said"
CrystalB Fr
"Sir, I still couldn't get the right footage for the Peregrine. Another day wasted."
"Damn it, Gonzalez! BBC needs this episode in by Thursday-- This. Thursday!"
"Sorry, boss. This is really tough. They only have a 20% strike rate, you know."
"Ah, to hell with it, we'll just splice in one of these fifty clips of failed attempts..."
probably, or they wanted to be family friendly.
Hmm
It was like they were holding a bird in front of a greenscreen lmao
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That’s sounds like how it’d have gone really.
Cut me some slack, BBC. London is full of pigeons and I am by no means "desperate" to feed my chicks. You gotta admit I am an awesome flying machine and I just barely missed the bugger...meanwhile, I'll admire the view while planning my next attack....
stalking your man?
Are you still alive then?
6falconsue i am your biggest fan
Thanks peregrine falcon, for giving our human engineers virtually every single idea for modern aviation technology.
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I remember watching this in 5th grade & thinking it was the coolest shit ever
Pigeon was chill as hell 🗿🗿
Over 200 mph, and a slow ass pigeon gets away?
He is small and agile, in the skies agility is way more important than on Earth.
Gabriel Rodriguez And precision.
Gabriel Rodriguez its a she
to much to risk, he comes down at 200mph , but doesn't mean he can turn on a dime. if the pigeon sees and makes a small dodge in the right direction hats all it takes
Gabriel Rodriguez
I'd imagine any falcon would prove to be more agile than a dumpy little pigeon. They aren't exactly brisk flyers. I'd have to go with Vicariously Thru-Kay on this and assume the Peregrine misses most of its prey because it can't change its acceleration into a vertical U-turn to give chase before the spooked pigeon is long gone.
The peregrine falcon was like, I'm on camera so nope.
The wing beats per second of the average peregrine is a lot faster than this video shows. They fly a lot more like slightly slower versions of swifts when they aren't engaged in a dive.
When Peregrine dives
Pigeons: Smoke in the air! Smoke in the air!
I regularly climb at a cliff (the Gunks) where peregrines nest. To truly appreciate one of these dive stoops, you have to see it from 100 feet up the side of a mountain!
They have a very distinct call, and the moment I heard one nearby, I looked around to see one dive past me (no more than 20 away!) It looked like a grey missile about a foot and a half long. I didn't see an explosion of feathers at the bottom of its stoop, so I guess no dinner. It is truly a delight to share the cliffs with these magnificent, intelligent and slightly scary birds.
That must be an impressive sight but it's much better to see one one of these bad boys hit their prey. I used to work in a high rise building in Philly where they use Peregrine Falcons for pigeon control, and I've witnessed quite a few times where they've hit their mark...puff and a bunch of feathers and no more pigeon...a very impressive sight. To all those idiots who were not impressed by the 20% kill rate, I ask how many wartime fighter pilots have been known to have a kill rate of even half that of the Peregrine Falcon.
Bird of Prey eye structure is actually pretty cool, while humans have 1 fovea centralis (the spot on your retina that gives you the ability to "focus"on something) most birds of prey actually have 2. In addition to this the density of light receptors in a birds eye can be anywhere from 2-8 times as much as a humans (depending on the species). These two things in combination with several other factors give them incredible vision, hence calling someone with good sight a "hawk-eye".
Nice info 👍🏼👌🏻
Don't let this distract you from the fact that the falcons blew a 28-3 lead
But an Eagle will goble up a falcon anyday ;)
Palace fans!
This was a thing... I almost forgot 😂
That was an Atlanta falcon not a peregrine one 😂😂😂😂
Same thing honestly. Both anticlimactic.
The only thing the Peregrine Falcon is missing, is a few miniature AIM-120C and AIM-9 missiles, and maybe a JDAM, then I reckon it would be able to fly solo missions, over Afghanistan.
F-16 Fighting Falcon
U can bomb America too
Pigeons have excellent eyesight, and are pretty smart too...
The pigeon used ultra instinct
20% isn't bad. A lion has 30% and a cheetah has 20% kill ratio as well.
Considering most predators have a 5% hit rate, 20% is incredible...
Peregrine has to try 5 times to get dinner for the day, might take it an hour or two.
Humans on the other hand have to work 8 hours a day.
dymproductions Cheetahs have 50%.
But cheetah is running the whole time, while peregrine falcon is free falling. They're both pretty badass, but cheetah still for me.
+pls no hatters Lol
"Perfect Predator"..... umm.. only 20% of atacks ends in a Kill... thats not so perfect Mr. BBC
most wild animals have a 20 - 45% kill rate. none of them are truly perfect. but, their design is perfect to hunt those particular animals
Because there just are predators that kill 100% of their prey.
Cheetahs have a 90% kill rate lol.
no cheetahs dont have 90% kill rate. its 50-50
Bryan Allen peregrine are by definition not perfect hunters, because they have almost disappeared everywhere and are only introduced artifcially in most areas, forcibly breeding them and putting them in towers / churches / high rise builings
without human help peregrine would have been long extinct
often times when peregrine are reintroduced into the wild, they do not survive, the wild rock pigeons and other birds are able to tumble and avoid many of their attacks, the city pigeons are out of their reach since peregrine don't do that well in cities because they are bad at scavenging unlike crows and pigeons, smaller songbirds are hard to find in the winter since people feed them in areas where peregrine don't want to go, you'll sometimes see a sparrowhawk in urban areas, rarely a peregrine unless it is forcibly introduced there, w in which case it rarely survives
that is not the case for animals like several other birds of prey, there's no programs to reintroduce buzzards for example, since they do fine on thier own, unlike peregrine they don't depend on other birds to survive, they just need an open field and they have very good success hunting there
Amazing that the greatest human engineering is given to us by nature... Peregrine nostril, now used in jet engines, wow!👍
This is more common than you think. Nature knows best. The nose of a Japanese bullet train is based on a kingfisher’s beak to reduce air pressure for when leaving tunnels
These falcons are awesome! In the city I live in on top of one of the buildings there's a huge nest area & a camera because there are 2 peregrine falcons who return every spring! The female (Wilma, my husband's name for her lol) lays her eggs usually 4 then Wilma & the male (of course I had to name him Fred lol) we get to watch them care for these eggs, see them hatch & watch the babies grow! It's so amazing & the baby Peregrines are beyond cute! They are these balls of white fluffy feathers & HUGE talon feet! Unfortunately around the end of June the babies leave the nest for good & Wilma & Fred also leave until the end of March of the next year & they start the whole process over again! These are beautiful Falcons & the 9 months they are gone my husband & I miss them very much!! We love nature & all species in nature!!
Wilma & Fred have left & the babies (now considered full grown) left 2 days ago! Wilma & Fred were excellent falcon parents & the last of the babies left the nest for the last time Friday afternoon! I can't wait for the end of next March when the falcons return! I miss them already
@@jennbrewster3912thanks for sharing❤
Well that was a bit anti-climatic with all that pumping music going on.. but anyways a pretty neat creature no less ^^
Thought the same thing.
lmao all that dramatic music and then it just misses.
does anyone else notice how beautifully shot this is?
Yep
Yes
it's fake fool
like wtf is wrong with y'all
I'm guessing transformers is your favorite movie
Imagine a planet somewhere in the universe where animals like this evolved to be sentient. Imagine just how cool that would be.
Right! Very loving of their young and conspecifics, but regard most other species as "cattle!"
This video is total proof against evolution whether or not they intended it to be, just think about it. It has the perfect design for just about everything it needs, how would it evolve these traits, much less learn how to use them.
Ok first natural selection isn't actually proof of evolution, if you think about Darwin's finches, none of them actually changed species, their beaks just varied in shape a little. Did you know that Charles Darwin himself actually thought that what some evolutionists use as a main proof(fossils) were one of the main proofs that evolution was fake? This greatly troubled him. Also if the peregrine falcon evolved these traits slowly, its lungs would have exploded from the dives. As the video said, the nose parts were the only things keeping this from happening. In fact the idea of evolution is so unlikely evolutionists use "Hopeful monsters" as a theory, meaning the idea that a T-Rex had a baby bird and cared for it until it grew up. The odds of this happening are extremely low and the odds of two of the being bord are astronomical. I'm not trying to hate on evolutionism, I'm just trying to tell people about God.
me I'm serious.
Lucas Kane I'm a Christian.
This is my all-time favorite bird
That pigeon's OP lol
I help rehabilitate Peregrine Falcons for years and they are wonderful birds with a huge appetite.
Anything diving toward earth will reach high speeds...of course. But the peregrine is built for it. Other birds would die. Just sad that the peregrine can't fly that fast in a horizontal plane, she's just a normal bird then.
+zioncommand They can reach over 200kmph horizontally..that's still way faster than the average bird.
They are still one of the fastest in level flight but don't forget, it's not just one or the other. They use their height advantage in 3 dimensional space, to build up speed that others can't match, and then TRANSLATE that momentum in other directions. They can dive down at shallower angles, still at very high speed. They can use a more vertical dive to build up momentum, catch up to something, then if necessary, swoop back up using that momentum to catch the prey. They are jet fighters of the bird world.
Why is that sad? What would be the need to fly that fast in level flight. Birds usually only travel in level flight when migrating. All other times they are flying an an an upward or downward angle. Therefore the best tactic for a bird of prey is to attack unseen from behind and above and use the height to build up speed to cut down on the time to reach their target. This increases the chance of striking before the target bird has time to detect and evade the attack. BTW. The Peregrine Falcon is no slouch in level flight. I've read that they've been clocked at about 7o mph, which puts it up there among the fastest. 0valle0
why "sad"? :)) Falcons have no obligation to be always and everywhere THE fastest just to satisfy your strange wishes.
Hey technically the Falcon is not fast it just uses gravity to fall fast.
The peregrine falcon should develop the ability to set fire to its farts during a dive to give it an afterburner effect so it can go faster and improve upon that 20% strike rate.
hmartinspliff,
It would look pretty epic XD a line of fire in the sky lol XD
😂😂😂
Bro the falcon looked so depressed in the last part 😢
Think about it.
The fastest animal of today is a small carnivorous dinosaur called Falco Peregrinus.
Isn't the world awesome?
not really
Its name should have been
Jet falcon
Miss peregrine...
Thats who bought me here lol
same...
We need a documentary on the camera man lmao 🤣
1:39 How is it possible the pigeon has detected the falcon at 100 meters/seconds ?
Has it a trick ?
Is it the displacement of air ?
A sound caused by the falcon ?
Simple luck of the pigeon because he has changed its fly at the good moment ?
Well I don't know about some of the rude comments but me myself & my grandkids loved it no matter what the outcome was. Thank you very much
That ending made me sad :'(
Oof the extinction in north America the perigrine falcon people make the funeral!😪
Redoutable! Belles images 👌
Pigeons are fast flyers too..
When i was a kid i love pet pigeons so much and i used to see the Falcon just like a bad enemy to me, i always cry when the Falcon strikes on my pigeons, But now i own a company called Falcon - I love Falcon Know "amazing quality" a lonely creature and so focused.
Quite a sensational glide, I would have loved to listen to the sound emitted by the wings in this swoop, I was once lucky to witness a successful one,(here in Africa); just before the impact, the wings made a whistling screech almost like the rubber-tarmac way.
+Duncan Siima I need to see one, and a whale too.
1:09 who is the designer for this super effective system owned by the falcon?
My favoirate animal was the peregrine falcon since I was 7, and my stupid friend thinks a cheetah is faster than it, even though ive lold him cheetahs go 112mph
I'm not stupid i didn't know they are slower than a peragon volcen
Oh ya when i triyed to say an animal faster than an eagle beggining with ant i ment antilopers
Oh, sorry, I didnt mean you bobby
I was talking about a boy called josh in my circles
112? Cheetahs typically can run about 70 mph
Reminds me of how Shoaib Akhtar covered a long distance for his bowling run-up, generated insane pace and hurtled the cricket ball over the pitch with all his might... only for Rahul Dravid to defend it.
0:12 Desperate to feed her chicks. Just had to laugh.
I salute the camera for his incredible speed. He not only kept up, but surpased the bird.
200mph terminal velocity?
Fasullo Daniel
Uh, no. Peregrines have been recorded in stoop at over 240mph. So...200mph is not the terminal velocity. Not sure why you were questioning the question.
Gangly1
I think it depends on the shape of the body that is falling since terminal velocity is the speed at which you are no longer accelerating downward. If you are spread out like a man in a wingsuit, you would reach terminal velocity at a much lower speed because of the greater area to air resistance ratio versus being as thin as possible vertically. Overall more drag equals lower terminal velocity. The peregrine falcon can easily surpass the speed said in the video by simply changing its shape in a way that creates even less drag.
The designer of this bird deserves a raise.
Peregrine falcons are awesome but I'd think the perfect predator would have better than a 20% strike rate ;)
lions with all of their pack strategies and shit have only like 30 %
Don't think most predators were meant to have a very high strike rate. If they did there wouldn't be much prey to go around eventually.
humans with all their oversizes brain, guns with scopes and jeeps can't get a lot much higher on average
Andrew M Actually, humans are so good at killing things, I mean look where they are now.
Hmmm, not bad considering the falcon's diving in a straight line at 200 mph and pigeon's not so stupid!!!
I love falcon birds😍😍😍
Quite a grand entrance, for an epic fail ending.. Don't misunderstand, i love perigrine falcons more than any other bird in the world.. But couldn't they shoot something that he actually gets the prey?
dewsesable It was, to say the least, a bit anticlimactic...
brasil221 nature presented as it is.
+dewsesable First, they are showing reality here. There was a second hunt in the full episode that did end in success.
Its basically a dang fighter jet
Show me your moves!
the way this bird is built shows that god created it ....just look at its design stunning!
the most fast 350 k/h
389km/h is the record
Pigeons are noted for being one of the smartest birds around...
talk about anti-climactic
Props to the cameraman for getting us shots in the nostrils, eyelids, and especially reaching a terminal velocity of 200mph, going faster than even the peregrine falcon herself.
We‘ letting you alone with this comment.
damn, the falcon looked like batman
Old video but just think, they couldn’t even get accurate footage of the drop. 20% doesn’t matter if they have the stamina to do
It 20x a day. That falcons stomach is full. Perfect evolution.
True
fast so
fast
"The Perfect Predator"
"the pigeon escapes her grasp"
Look at the way the falcon goes! It will put some ultimate Fighter Jets to shame. This shows how weak Humans are, physically. There is nothing superhuman about them(Peregrine). Anyone(ordinary) attempting this dive(at this speed) will surely have a heart attack, if not trained properly(fighter pilots). This little wonder is doing it without any equipment, and they talk & brag about man made Fighter aircrafts doing super-maneuvers. The bird along with Golden Eagles, Gyrfalcons (and pigeons)are true natural wonders, engineering marvels and I dare say, ultimate Flying Machines (yes the pigeon, it can have sustained flights for longer period)!
Not to mention, that one false move could not only result in going hungry, but diving at that speed could result in broken wings and just falling to earth. I love Falcons, they are beautiful birds and I would love to have the privilege to train one
Archer Girl Unfortunately, not related to this, but what has happened in Indonesia, is an example. RIP!
That said, I have been following falconry, but dont know where to begin as well.
LMAO this reminded me of the misleading White Walker hype from Game of Thrones 😂😂😂
So anti-climatic smh
Shoutout to the camera man for capturing the intense eyes of the falcon while diving over 200mph
Verily Allah is the best creator. What a bird... I can't express my words in statement. Speechless.
Allah?
@@charlesrobert5473 yup... Don't you know that peregrine falcons follow Islam and regularly go to mecca. The females even wear burkhas while flying.
Falcon.. pissed at the end... not getting her kill...
"what the hell are you lookin at?"
lol...
but seriously a good clip.. how could they film it... awesome!
All this clear design inside a single bird and we still reject the idea that the universe was designed by an intelligent creator. Sure, we build our own designs by stealing idea's from creation, since we clearly see the 'why' in its design. We can tell why the beak of this particular bird was made to resist enormous speeds, for instance. But we still believe the universe and everything in it was created by coincidence. By "nature" as if "nature" somehow had a consciousness. It baffles me.
Deo Volente It did not start as a cutting edge flying machine.....it evolved that way....like how we used to have tails and now we don't....hence THE TAIL BONE.....you should probably take a class in DNA sequencing to understand the basics
We most certainly had tails....we have the dormant DNA for it as well as "tailbones" yeesh
+Ameretat010 I never spoke about natural selection though, so why would you answer that way? Natural selection is a process which we can see and measure and yes of course this exists. But what I said was something entirely different: "But we still believe the universe and everything in it was created by coincidence" This speaks about "creation" not any form of evolution. How things came into being to start with, functioning to begin with, having specific tools for specific reasons.
I'm less interested in what they now have due to natural selection. They simply have this now for some reason but why can they have it and why were they made with (perhaps previous) tools to begin with? Can it be explained by a big bang alone? Or should a clear design always have a designer?
+Ameretat010 You assume that the creator would be constantly creating, when you speak of His mistakes that would be made if He were the creator. That's again a misrepresenation of what I said. Again: I believe in natural selection. I just don't believe what you believe about the very start of everything. That is a different issue entirely.
What I mean is that you seem overlook the world view of the theist, wherin God could have created the beings and set in motion the process we are now monitoring. That animals naturally select and change from those "choices" sure ... but how did they come into being? And how much of something has had to be in there for current designed features to come out? Should it not have already been there? Isn't that what natural selection is: to work with what is already present? For instance don't I as a white man already have the needed genes to be a black man, already present inside of my gene mapping? Yes I do.
Been watching this since I was like 6 and I love it keep up the good work
Greatest video about peregrine falcon on youtube
The people who filmed this got skills this bird is diving 2x faster than a car on a highway 😳
Where do you go to learn about handling falcons? It is on my bucket list, I have always loved birds thanks to my grandpa. And have always wanted to learn about how to take care of them.
Just look it up online. It is not cheap and it takes a lot of time. Especially your first year doing so. You basically have to look at it like a job. You will be spending every spare second you have with your falcon as they are an extension of you. It sounds like a cool thing to do and I am not saying you are taking it lightly but I looked into it because I love birds and have always been fascinated about being a falconer but my shcedule does not permit the time the bird needs.
I am almost 50 (in 3 weeks) so it is on my bucket list and thank you for your comment. Will let everyone know if it does come true!
Who came here after watching Instagram video 😂
Cool, just saw my first Peregrine Falcon in the wild today, was just sitting on a power pole but did get a good shot of him (camera shot) flew away but it was pretty leisurely, hoping to go back today and see if it's feeding time.
This bird is so fast it produces the ps4 fan sound from miles away
What actually happened is that the camera crew couldn't get a footage of the peregrine catching the prey so they made up a story about how it's the bird's fault and not the useless camera crew.
You would think if the falcon hit it's prey at 200 mph that they would both die. Maybe that's why there's only a 20% kill ration because if the falcon strikes it's prey just a tad bit wrong it could kill them both and the falcon doesn't to risk a bad strike until it's just perfect.
+999KMX They wouldn't hit them at that speed. They use their speed to catch up to the prey, but if they were going too fast, they would open their wings a tiny bit, just before reaching the bird, to slow down to an appropriate speed for impact. They still hit damn hard and I once heard one hit a duck so hard, it was literally like a gunshot.
Why does the BBC always use London as their background for stuff?
that's the beauty of nature, even pigeons developed the hability to cut from scratch the flight mechanics, hence, altering completly the trayectory, thus making the falcon calculations useless (because at that speed there's little it can do about maneuverig) .... awsome
one of best vdos of BBC studio
20% because she is in catch mode, +50% more of tackling the pigeon's head
YEEESSS! YOUR GOING DOWN PIGEON!Intense build up and music plays, about to strike the pigeon, aaaaaaannndd…The Pigeon says "NOT TODAY!" And dodges the attack… :(
What I find most impressive is their inbuilt camera in the eye.
2:16 he’s like “what mate? I wanne see you do it”.
Beautifully captured...thanks for catching the dive..furious speed..really amazing...god made marvels....salute to god ..
Disbelievers will still not believe
What a beautiful bird, but I sure wish this video captured mama bird catching the pigeon so she could feed her chicks. But then again, I love pigeons too- had one as a pet when I was a child and boy are they smart.
The baffle design has been implemented in aircraft since in the 1950's, they're know as nose cones or inlet spikes.
when he said "desperate to feed her chicks" lol