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

Explore the world’s fastest birds of prey, from falcons to eagles, and learn how extreme speed and high-velocity make them ...

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 ...

Over the past months, I’ve periodically covered the strange extravagance of birds in various dimensions: the fastest birds, the biggest birds and the smallest birds, for instance. Considering the ...