The peregrine falcon belongs to the genus Falco, which is characterized by long pointed wings. Peregrine falcons are birds of few words; they are generally silent but sometimes make a rasping ...

“Everything went well,” Michelle Hawkins, director of the California Raptor Center, said of the falcon’s wing surgery before he was recaptured. “The bird can fly beautifully, and it can hu ...

He begins waving the pole, making wide, sweeping arcs with the fluttering wing. In the distance Maktoum slips the leather hood off the falcon’s head and releases it. The bird beats its large ...

who stopped to watch a magnificent Peregrine falcon named Cheyenne warm up her wings. “They’re the Ferraris of the sky,” he marveled. Probst and McDonough gingerly stowed their birds from ...

“The Maltese Falcon” is a 1941 film about a glittering ... one with the gravity of religion and the privilege of wings. The ...

The next advance, dronebuilders say, will be to emulate the way birds change the shape of their wings by overlapping their feathers, as when a peregrine falcon performs a dive at more than 200 ...

Both are built for fast flying. Each has a bulky, muscular body with strong, pointed wings and a relatively short tail.' Birds are the main staple of a peregrine falcon's diet. Pigeons are their ...

Both are built for fast flying. Each has a bulky, muscular body with strong, pointed wings and a relatively short tail.' Birds are the main staple of a peregrine falcon's diet. Pigeons are their ...