• BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Doesn’t the peregrine take those out at mach 69 from the air and not while the cocky little shit is talking smack in his ear on a branch though?

    Get fucked big falcon. This is lil birb territory.

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      7 months ago

      That’s what they’re famous for. However, they can catch prey like songbirds by simply being faster and more agile than the quarry, chasing them down in horizontal flight. Some journal articles credit it with a horizontal top speed in the 90 mph range.