To pull this off, a Peregrine Falcon flies high into the sky, using its keen eyesight to locate birds flying below. When it finds its target, the falcon folds its wings and falls into a nose dive, or ...

When the peregrine falcons’ hideaway at Fox Hall was discovered by accident in 2007, the female had laid eggs on a bare bed of gravel on the roof, but the eggs didn’t hatch. At the time, it was too ...

Its most famous hunting technique, the stoop, involves flying high, locating prey, and then diving at it at speeds of over ...

By Lily Franklin A bird box has been installed on top of a historic church in order to create a nesting space for one of the ...

Peregrine falcons, able to reach straight-line flight speeds of 70 mph and stoop speeds in excess of 240 mph, are the fastest animal on the planet. While there's over 350 nesting pairs in the ...

A photographer has captured images of a peregrine falcon with its talons caught in a discarded face mask. Steve Shipley, from Driffield, spotted the juvenile falcon on the Yorkshire coast.

They can reach speeds up to 240 mph, making them the fastest birds in the world.

STAFF REPORT Nov 16, 2012 Nov 16, 2012 Updated Sep 12, 2013 Two peregrine falcons have been spending time outside the Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square. The birds of prey were photographed on the ...

Most notably, they breed and hand raise every bird they fly—a practice that was thought impossible before captive peregrine falcons were first successfully bred in 1942 by Nazi leader Hermann ...

A pair of peregrine falcons nested at Hartlepool's EDF power station A pair of peregrine falcons have been spotted rearing their young next to a power station's tower. The birds, which are ...

The world’s fastest animal, the peregrine falcon, has been put back on the red list of “vulnerable” species by the Swiss Ornithological Association. Having made a comeback since near ...

A peregrine falcon found with shotgun wounds on a school playing field has been released back into the wild. The bird of prey was found on 11 December at Littlemoor Infant Academy in Askern ...