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A peregrine falcon stoops faster than 300 kilometres an hour
Measured dives exceed 380 kilometres an hour in level flight trials The bird folds its wings and drops, using a raised shoulder and stiff feathers to control the dive. Specialised baffles in the nostrils slow the airflow so it can breathe. Prey is often struck in mid air rather than caught. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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- Measured dives exceed 380 kilometres an hour in level flight trials. The figure is taken from Cornell Lab, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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