Also known as a duck hawk, it has been clocked at 175 miles per hour during a dive
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Peregrine falcon - Wikipedia  The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk .... Numerous subspecies of Falco peregrinus have been described, with 19 .... to a great height and then diving steeply at speeds of over 320 km/h (200 mph), hitting one wing of its prey so as not to harm itself on impact.
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Fun facts about birds | KnowLedge  Jul 4, 2012 ... At 9 feet, the American White Pelican has the longest wingspan of any ... It regularly attains speeds of 40-60 mph and has been clocked in steep dives at 175 mph. ... The Yellow-crowned Night-Heron is also known as the "crab-eater. ... The Turkey Vulture and the Zone-tailed Hawk can be mistaken for each...
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Flight - Peterson's Perspective - At Home  Through their evolutionary development, birds have become highly efficient fliers. ... ...to the halting wing beat of the Sharp-shinned Hawk ... Marsh ducks, like the Mallard (below, right), spring into flight instantly. ... speeds of about 40-60 miles per hour and has been clocked during its steep dives at 175 miles per hour!
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1. What is North America's smallest bird?  40-60 mph and has been clocked in steep dives at 175 mph. 6. What migrating ... What North American bird is also known as the "baldpate"? Answer: Because...
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World's Fastest Birds - The Travel Almanac  It first soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds of over 200 mph. ... Spine-tailed swift, also known as the White-throated Needletail (scientific .... cars in level flight, they go incredibly fast, faster than any falcon of hawk could ever go .... the fastest animal on earth - if nothing else, it has been clocked at up to 250mph,...
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The Life of Birds | Champion Birds - PBS  The tern goes far, but surely no bird lives life faster than the hummingbird. ... that emperor penguins can stay an astonishing 11 minutes under water during a dive. .... The giant egg, weighing 18 pounds, is the equivalent of 183 chicken eggs,...
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KILLER WHALES (Orcinus orca) - Adaptations for an Aquatic ...  One of these whales, a juvenile, twice dove to a depth of more than 228 m (748 ft.) ... A killer whale breathes through a single blowhole on top of its head. ... Killer whales appear to have a metabolic rate equal to what would be expected for ... Several species of cetaceans, including the bottlenose dolphin and beluga whales,...
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What are the world's fastest birds? | Earth | EarthSky  May 31, 2011 ... The peregrine falcon is the fastest bird  and in fact the fastest animal on ... then dives steeply at speeds of over 300 kilometers (200 miles) per hour. ... Also, birds fly faster when they're chasing prey or escaping a predator. ... Its average running speed is about 30 miles an hour  but it can sprint even faster.
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How air breathing diving animals hold their breath - Emperor Divers ...  Jul 6, 2009 ... Once the animal is under water and can no longer breath, the O2 stock of the ... A sperm whale will breathe 4 or 5 times per minute for up to 15 minutes at the surface to stay two hours under water. Sea birds normally dive for 3 to 10 minutes according to the species they belong to ... 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.
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Honor Swimmers  IMSHOF  At the 2000 World Open Water Swimming Championships, he not only ... a 42 km (26-mile) swim in Guaymas, Mexico that took her 12 hours in 1957, the ... Mexico in 1958 and did an 11 hour 7 minute single-crossing of the Catalina Channel in 1958. ... He set a record of 17 hours and 6 minutes in 1989 in the 64 km (40-mile)...
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List of birds by flight speed - Wikipedia  This is a list of the fastest flying birds in the world. A bird's velocity is necessarily variable; a hunting bird will reach much greater speeds while diving to catch prey than when gliding. The bird with the greatest airspeed velocity is the peregrine falcon, able to exceed 320 km/h (200 mph) in its hunting dives. ... 40-56 mph, 110 km/h
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The SR-71 Blackbird Story - f-16a full mission simulator  Record 61 - 17972 ... been successfully able to do their roles as the reconnaissance ... could not always rely on spy satellites whose orbits were on a set ... A special high-bypass axial-flow turbo jet engine named J58-1 .... world record speed over 15/25 km course, 2,193 mph .... Flight on 28 July 1976. .... THE DARK DAYS.
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Explore Our Bottle Cap Real Facts | Snapple  Jan 16, 2014 ... Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water. ... 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet. ... The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body. ..... Top-performing companies are called "blue chips" after the costliest chips in .... The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.
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How Diving Mammals Stay Underwater for So Long  Jun 15, 2013 ... But champion divers, such as elephant seals, can hold their breath for about two hours. ... This positive characteristic allows the animals to pack much more myoglobin ... diving ability and how much myoglobin a species can claim. ... Some of these humans can stay underwater for a very long time," he said.
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Astonishing Flying Speed | Incredible Birds  A bird flying for 7 hours at 20 km/h would cover 140 kilometers, whereas another flying for ... It can attain 6590 km/h (40-56 mph) (average horizontal speed), 105115 km/h (65-71 ... soaring speed in golden eagles is around 4552 km/h (2832 mph) (averages horizontal speed). .... Homing pigeon used as a carrier pigeon.
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PENGUINS | Facts and Details  When hunting emperor penguins dive below their prey so their can look up and see the ... Most other swimming birds swim using their feet. ... Most species swim between 3 and 6 mph and can reach higher speed when threatened ..... King penguins dive to depths of 900 feet and roam 900 kilometers from their nesting areas.
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Full text of "The National geographic magazine" - Internet Archive  Montenegro, Jugo-Slavia 168, 175, 180, 182 "Montmartre," Prague, ..... Island 167, 175 Ribbon Falls, Grand Canyon, Ariz 645 Rice fields, Dutch Fast Indies ill. ...... NO LONGER can the land animal kingdom of the earth and its pe- culiar ...... and the velocity of the machine is 80 miles per hour, then the speed which the...
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The American Experience | Lindbergh | Aviation Milestones (1903 ...  1909, 1909 July -- French aviator Louis Bleriot, flying the "Bleriot XI," makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air ... Traveling at an average speed of 36 miles per hour, Bleriot covered the 23-mile distance in 37 minutes. ... 1933, July -- The first round-the-world, solo flight is completed by Wiley Post.
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Osprey - Wikipedia  The osprey (Pandion haliaetus)  also called fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk  is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and .... The head is white with a dark mask across the eyes, reaching to the sides of...
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How do deep-diving sea creatures withstand huge pressure changes?  May 2, 2002 ... A SPERM WHALE can dive down more than 2,000 meters and can stay submerged ... From the days of whaling, these animals have been recognized as ... time-depth recorders, dives as deep as 6,000 feet (more than a mile ... and the subsequent development of high blood nitrogen levels. ... 1 Comments.
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Airplane | Article | World Book Student  Most large transport planes routinely fly 500 to 600 miles per hour (mph), ... These lighter-than-air aircraft rise and float because they are filled with a gas that is ... Many twin-engine jetliners carry fewer passengers than three- or four-engine jets ...... Otto Lilienthal of Germany made the first successful glider flights in which a...