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Do You Know Which Bird Can Beat Bugatti Veyron?

The Falcon (peregrine ) is famous for the speed which the bird can attain, the fastest bird in the world can reach over a mind boggling speed of  322 km/h (200 mph) The fastest flying animal in the world can reach such speed during its characteristic hunting stoop or high speed dives making it the Fastest member of the animal kingdom.

According to a National Geographic program, the fastest recorded speed of a peregrine falcon is  242 mph  or 389 km/h.

Fastest Bird in the world: The way it does it

The peregrine falcon reaches the fastest speed more than any living thing on the earth by performing the stoop,  The maneuver involves flying at great heights and then free falling down at speeds over 320 km/h or 243 mile/hr, The fastest bird in the world hit the pray(bird) on one wing thus injuring the pray and not injuring itself.The pressure created by free failing at such high speeds of 242 mile/hr can damage the falcons lungs, but small bony tubercles on a falcon’s nostrils guide the powerful airflow away from the nostrils, this enable the bird to breathe easily at such high speeds. The falcon has a third eyelid for flying at such high speeds and also  to clear any dust hitting the eyes and also clearing the tears from their eyes while also maintaining vision. A study testing the flight physics of an “ideal falcon” found a theoretical speed limit at 400 km/h (250 mph) for low altitude flight and 625 km/h (390 mph) for high altitude flight.

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