Peregrine Falcon Family 1 - The Perents

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Peregrine Falcon Family 1 - The Perents

Changde Wu 2019-04-28

Peregrine Falcon is the fastast flying animal in the world, the recorded speed is 389 km/h. They hunt other birds from the sky with characteristic diving. These birds don't build nests in the tree, instead pick places in a ledge of cliffs to lay eggs and hatch them. Some of them aslo nest in the artificial strutures such as the top of towers or under the cellings of high bridges. This serials of threes documented the life of the pair of Peregrine Falcon during 2018, which successfully raised four chicks. This page is about the adults, the next page is about the chicks before fledging, and the last page is about the fledged falcons.

P1 On the side of the nest

P2 Back to the nest with a prey

P3 Rest in the cliff

P4 Carrying a prey in the air

P5 The couple in the nest

P7 Asking to hand over the food

P8 Carrying another prey in the air

P9 Even peregrines can take small birds prey, some times they are harrassed by them. This was the moment that the Peregrine turned back in the air to fight a mocking bird.