The magnificent falcon: a bird-hunter

We all know from the school bench that the eagle represents an incredible power, a hawk is a cunning, and a falcon is the swiftness and irresistibility of an attack! Of all these predators, it is the falcon that is called the world bird! About him and talk.

As you know, the biggest birds of the Falcon family are the peregrine falcons, the gyrfalcon and the Saker Falcon. Falcon is a bird of lightning! He is very fast in his flight and masterly owns different methods of air combat!

Thunderstorm Air

Falcons are playing in the air! They do not need to overtake any duck or guillemot, plunge the land of quite large geese, bustard, and also cope with armed sharp beaks by herons! Ornithologists say that falconry is the highest aerobatics of this bird!

Debriefing

The attacking falcon bird (photo 2) is about two kilograms of steel muscles and just indestructible bones, rushing at a crazy speed (more than 200 km / h)! His foul blow is inflicted by the whole body, as well as clawed paws. Then the predator begins to slow down a little to survive. Ornithologists observed how, after such a blow in the air, a "cloud" of feathers and fluff of the unfortunate victim still floats for a while. That's how he is so terrible - this falcon!

Predator birds From the Falcon family they possess the skills of different methods of hunting. For example, sometimes predators are engaged in patrolling the territory at a tremendous height, and then strike accurately the target of the prey from the air prey on the ground. All this is accompanied by a sharp dive. Ornithologists conducted research and were amazed at the speed with which the diving predator rushes to its victim. For example, the Peregrine Falcon does it at a speed of 300 (!) Km / h! This same mind is incomprehensible! Can you imagine what would happen if these birds hunted people?

One beak is good, and two is even better!

Falcon is a single bird, but in rare cases large individuals practice pair hunting. How does this happen? One of them is planning directly above the ground, and the other is guarding the prey in the sky. Then the lower falcon starts to raise the birds sitting on the ground up, trying to catch them. In fact, this is a tricky trick aimed at confusing the poor fellow, confusing them. After that, a second predator, hovering over the earth, hits the frightened birds flying into the air! There are practically no chances to save the victims.

Masters of the business

Falcon is a bird that has no equal in air hunting! As already mentioned above, these predators have a whole arsenal of all kinds of hunting techniques. A man from ancient times was engaged in the exploitation of the hunting abilities of Peregrine Falcons. This allowed hawk-hawk hunters, with the help of their "pets", to obtain rabbits, ducks, pheasants, partridges.

Falconry is considered a very ancient occupation. After all, peregrine falcons exist on our planet for a very long time. In addition, they have no natural enemies. The bird is widespread everywhere and, provided there is no hunting on it, a person can exist even in large cities. For example, in Moscow, the Peregrine Falcons nest on the roof of the Moscow State University, located on the Vorobyovy Gory.