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00:00-00:37 The 3 fastest birds – stooping speed & What is stooping?
00:37-00:54 Golden eagle (241 kilometers per hour)
00:54-01:10 Saker falcon (320 kilometers per hour)
01:10-01:27 Peregrine falcon (390 kilometers per hour)
01:27-01:33 End
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The 3 fastest birds – stooping speed
What is stooping?
Many birds of prey use a high-speed attack dive known as ‘stooping’, where they fly high above their prey before closing their wings and falling into a downwards dive. Their aerodynamic shape combined with the force of gravity leads to stooping birds reaching enormous speeds, often stunning or killing their prey outright on impact.
Although these stooping birds are the fastest animals in the sky, is diving really flying? The gravity-assisted nature of this hunting technique is more of a controlled fall than flying, hence them being broken out into a separate section.
03- Golden eagle
(241 kilometers per hour)
Although golden eagles are the third-fastest diving bird, it’s actually unusual for these giant birds to reach their top speed by stooping at 240 kilometers per hour – they usually hunt by flying low over land and striking prey with their talons.
02- Saker falcon
(320 kilometers per hour)
The saker falcon is renowned as an exceptional hunter, which combined with its incredible diving speed of 320 kilometers per hour allows it to hunt small and medium-sized mammals and birds, sometimes larger than itself.
03- Peregrine falcon
(390 kilometers per hour)
The Peregrine falcon is, without doubt, the fastest of all birds. It’s been measured moving at speeds of up to 390 kilometers per hour when stooping.
