The common swift may not have a fancy name, but these small birds are marvels of velocity. Regularly cruising around 110kph ...

The question about the fastest flying avian might’ve come up in casual conversations with friends, in your child's homework or, perhaps, just out of simple curiosity. According to a study led by the ...

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Falcons are known to be fast and powerful predatory birds. However, the peregrine falcon stands in a class by itself. The peregrine falcon is so fast that scientists had to create a computer model to ...

Wednesday, Aug. 27 turned out to be an eventful day, bird-wise. I set out before dawn for the upper reaches of Hoover Reservoir. It was a clear day, and I wanted to secrete myself in a good honey hole ...

Three peregrine falcons sit in a nest box Muscatine Power and Water along the Mississippi River. This box has seen 23 baby falcons fledged. From 1959-1989 there were no peregrine falcons found in the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It isn’t every day Austinites get a glimpse of the world’s fastest bird in action. But such was the case when a 12-year-old peregrine falcon named Yukon Jack made his annual migration ...

Birds across the Americas are getting smaller and longer-winged as the world warms, and the smallest-bodied species are changing the fastest. Birds across the Americas are getting smaller and ...