The terminal velocity is amazing enough but if a human tried to come out of terminal velocity as fast as this falcon can we'd probably break every bone in our bodies.
ian brown Sure but.... 282 MPH or 458 Km/h is absolutely insane. Some scientists measured that speed during an attack. Faster than the fastest racing car of sport bike. Absolutely the fastest animal on this planet.
No I wasn't saying they are only fast because of thin air, just saying why there may be differences - 242 for one bird 282 for another. Who knows what the absolute fastest might be!
He named the brid frightful... Thats AWESOME! He got it from a book series called that started with "my side of the mountain" then "the other side of the mountain" and last "Frightfuls mountain" AWESOME SERIES!
I have the honor of working around these magnificent creatures every day. I work at an Audobon Society partnered golf course in Maine. We have 3 of these birds that call the golf course their home. They attack bluejays, morning doves and other similarly sized birds. It's and amazing experience. More often than not, we only hear them fly by and attack before we see it because they are so damn fast. Also, they create such an amazing sound like a jet turbine because they pierce the air so quickly.
I love peregrines! They are such beautiful birds, and seem so aware of everything going on around them. Peregrines just amaze me. I fell in love with this bird the first time I saw one in Yellowstone National Park, incubating its eggs. I'd seen many animals that day, including bears, but the peregrine was the highlight of my day. What an interesting a fun video.
I was working on a bridge that had a mating pair nesting nearby. The state made a big deal to make sure we were not working in the area where the birds were as to not disturb them from mating or scouting a new nesting spot. I never saw the falcons in action, but one morning, one of the falcons flew over us clutching a small bird like a starlet or a crackle.
These birds live on some of our bridges in NYC. Several brother Ironworkers I know have witnessed these falcons snatch pigeons out of mid air like a lightning bolt. They nest on top of the bridge towers. When someone goes up there to service the bridge, the falcons get pissed off. If they are there, you have to leave. BAD-ASS birds!
It's not a matter of how thin the air is. It's about how amazing it is that a living being can fall at a top speed of around 200 mph, come out of that free fall, and correct itself back to normal flight speed with nothing to help it do such things but it's own limbs.
Where i live in Sardinia,this bird is really common in the countrysides,i love watching them staying still (in the same place) in the air with their wings open...always wondered how they do it...once i also saw a falcon stooping down to catch a mouse (they have an incredible sight too). it was amazing!
There is something about the video I do not understand. The falcon left the plane first, the scientist released the 'lure' afterwards, yet the 'lure' caught up with the falcon? Was the 'lure's' terminal velocity greater than the peregrine falcon's velocity, with all its aerodynamic qualities? Great video, by the way.
Those are its jesses trailing behind it which is why you see them flair up with each downbeat as it descends. Jesses are tied to each of the falcon's legs and help the falconer hold onto the bird while its on the falconer's glove. Just letting you know =)
I love birds of prey. They’d be my special subject on Mastermind. Golden Eagles can stoop at 300kmh. But 380 plus kmh is just insane. If you watch the full documentary, there’s a sequence where Frightful is in a full dive and then she catches the lure a couple of hundred metres above the ground and pulls out of her dive and lands happily. All that with feathers and hollow bones! Just amazing. I love the natural world.
I live in Lexington Ky - years ago, we had a terrible pigeon issue downtown, especially among the taller buildings. Then we introduced the Peregrine to downtown, after a couple of years they took - needless to say, the pigeon problem has been resolved. Granted, we still find headless pigeons and see Falcons downtown, many of them have move to the suburbs - I'll notice my feeders won't have birds for a few days and then I'll notice a dead robin or sparrow on top one of my fence posts.
242mph!!!!!!! OMG!! That's mach 0.318 (at sea level, 0.33 at 10,000ft). Wow!! At this speed the compressibility of air becomes significant. At this mach no. the isentropic flow equations show that the air density on the nose of the bird is 5.13% higher than at stationary conditions (at sea level, 5.51% at 10,000ft). Falcon-compressor! Thank you for this video, I had NO idea that anything in nature could reach such a speed.
haha when she says "Kens shoot snaps open" I thought she was going to leave it at.. "Kens shoot snapps"... meaning hes toast haha this bird simple looks amazing let alone what it can actaully doo.
During the summer shad run, we would watch as the falcons would climb high over the lake, then close their wings and drop. Every time they would pull up just before crashing into the water's surface and grab an unsuspecting fish. I kept expecting to see one of them break it's neck but, they had the timing perfected. Because of this, all of the "local yokels" used to call them bass hawks.
Anyone else notice the similarity in shape to the Stealth Bomber. Especially when it is shifting shape for less drag around 2.05? Astonishing creatures.
Ff (frictional force) = -r(rho, or density of air)×A(area perpendicular to falling direction)×C(constant having to do with shape)×v(velocity)^2 Fg(gravitational force)=m(mass of object)×9.81 and if an object has reached terminal velocity we can say that Fg=-Ff so v=[root of](9.81×m/(r×A×C)) and if the mass is bigger it will result in a bigger v, or a bigger terminal velocity. but if you're talking about density, A will be bigger as well resulting in no difference as it is a fraction :-)
its funny how we all get so excited when a car breaks a speed record, but these wonderful creatures not only blaze the air but also catch a bait with precision while freefalling - simply magnificient.
I'm absolutely terrified of birds like that (falcons, owls, eagles...) but seeing stuff like this makes me recognize that they are truly amazing creatures!!!.... I don't want them near me though....
The perigrine is one of natures finest stews in the birch bark pot. We usually mix in some wild camus roots with the berry from the wild blueberry.They are somewhat difficult to catch: but an AK-47 usually fills the bill. You then put it in a bald eagles nest and let them pluck it, but pull it out before they devour it. You can then invite the eagles for dinner; thinking ahead for the next meal you know. Nature often offers you a great balancing act.
Also there is a 2.02% rise in the absolute air temperature at the nose of the bird, so for example if the ambient air is at 15C then the air at the nose of the bird rises to 20.7C ;-)))
Even if you dropped "Formula One -driver Michael Schumacher" he wouldn't beat the falcon. Respect for the bird. My budgies might, perhaps, reach 40 miles per hour. Enough for flying in our rooms- airspace - lol. Thanks for the upload of that very interesting , very educational video. Best regards from Rainer, Federal Republic of Germany ps : I beg your pardon for my poor English, I'm still learning
I always have a picture in my head of some little kid throwing a penny off the Empire State Building or something and a falcon coming out of nowhere at 242 mph and snaggin the penny out of mid-air.
This is more beautiful to watch than any fighter plane, and I am a big fighter plane fan. I think the F-16, manouverable and amazing plane that it is, hasn't got a thing on the real falcon.
they had a velocity measuring device on the falcon, if I remember the tv show correctly. Falcons can dive well over 200 mp/h. In level flight, they are just like other birds though, slower than some, even.
Falcons bones are designed different than ours. I doubt that bird weighs 6Ibs. I was driving down the interstate last week going about 80mph and all of a sudden a hawk or something swooped pass me. It looked like it was going to land in front of my car but all of a sudden swerved and hit the ground. It was after something but I didn't get to see if it caught it. Now I have a lot more respect for these birds of prey after seeing that impact of the ground first hand.
The way the falcon had her wings ever so slightly open at the shoulders made me think she was channeling a stream of air in the passage between her folded wing and body, like an F-4 Phantom's engines. At the speeds she was flying, feather steering would be difficult. Was she channeling streams of air like jet engines to steer? Maybe changing the aperture of each 'jet' to steer differentially?
A truly amazing raptor or bird of prey. I saw a peregrine falcon in the wild hit a pigeon with such great force that you could hear the impact and then the pigeon hit the near by building with another loud thump at which point it was totally knocked out and the falcon landed on the pigeon going in for the kill. That is until a loud and boisterous colleague scared off the peregrine falcon. Falcons are very skittish. Amazing enough, the pigeon came around and flew off.
The gravitational constant is reduced by distance from Earth's center. Joseph Kittinger attained a speed of 614 mp/h in freefall from an altitude of 31,300 meters - at that altitude g-force is reduced, but air resistance is very low; hence, his ridiculously high speed fall.
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I have a difficult time wrapping my mind around a bird traveling at those kind of speeds. Nature at it's best. Awe inspiring to say the least.
I love peregrine falcons, there just extraordinary.
Awesome idea! Skydiving with the ultimate skydiver.
Wildlife deserves nothing but RESPECT !
The terminal velocity is amazing enough but if a human tried to come out of terminal velocity as fast as this falcon can we'd probably break every bone in our bodies.
1:57 there's something about this slow-mo part of the "hyperdrive" that touches me deeply. Its hard to explain.
Peregrine falcons are truly amazing birds of prey.
They're predators. Not prey
@@starletd6819 Goggle the term "birds of prey"
thats one of the most amazing things ive ever seen...
Beautiful and incredible...
I've watched many peregrine videos, and this one contains the absolute best vertical drives.
- Stunningly beautiful.
wow, faster then some WWII Warbirds!
if it wasnt for national geographic, we wouldnt ever get to see so much animal nature and exciting things in animal nature. its amazing.
389Km/h... it's just unbelievable! what speed...
wow.....huge Respect for the FALCON...awesome man...
In another European test Peregrine Falcon reached the speed of 282 MPH 458 Km/h. In a test between Switzerland and Northern Italy in 2012.
+mptrax Wonder if the location or altitude has any effect, the air being thinner.
I'd like to see it in video.
Probably does. Also, birds would vary on an individual basis, just like some race horses are faster than others.
ian brown
Sure but.... 282 MPH or 458 Km/h is absolutely insane. Some scientists measured that speed during an attack. Faster than the fastest racing car of sport bike. Absolutely the fastest animal on this planet.
No I wasn't saying they are only fast because of thin air, just saying why there may be differences - 242 for one bird 282 for another. Who knows what the absolute fastest might be!
He named the brid frightful... Thats AWESOME!
He got it from a book series called that started with "my side of the mountain" then "the other side of the mountain" and last "Frightfuls mountain" AWESOME SERIES!
HIGH- VELOCITY FALCON
Holy crap! I almost expected to see a sonic shockwave when she passed by the camera. Good vid!
Frightful... My side of the mountain... anyone?
I just posted almost the same exact comment. I'm surprised there aren't more like them!
Its a great book, although I find fewer people than I would expect have read it...
Yeah!
I have the honor of working around these magnificent creatures every day. I work at an Audobon Society partnered golf course in Maine. We have 3 of these birds that call the golf course their home. They attack bluejays, morning doves and other similarly sized birds. It's and amazing experience. More often than not, we only hear them fly by and attack before we see it because they are so damn fast. Also, they create such an amazing sound like a jet turbine because they pierce the air so quickly.
Frightful=My Side of the Mountain
I love peregrines! They are such beautiful birds, and seem so aware of everything going on around them. Peregrines just amaze me. I fell in love with this bird the first time I saw one in Yellowstone National Park, incubating its eggs. I'd seen many animals that day, including bears, but the peregrine was the highlight of my day. What an interesting a fun video.
Ken Franklin likes to fly pretty dang low
Right, humans weigh more, but pound for pound, that bird is golden.
i hear SASHA!!!! XPANDER
Edward Texis good catch!
I love how they're playing a remix of DJ Sasha's "XPander" in this video. Great song.
I was working on a bridge that had a mating pair nesting nearby. The state made a big deal to make sure we were not working in the area where the birds were as to not disturb them from mating or scouting a new nesting spot. I never saw the falcons in action, but one morning, one of the falcons flew over us clutching a small bird like a starlet or a crackle.
I love that they named her frightful
WOW! nothing more awesome than this video right here! Thank you.
Incredible, absolutely incredible, what an achievment to get that footage.
These birds live on some of our bridges in NYC. Several brother Ironworkers I know have witnessed these falcons snatch pigeons out of mid air like a lightning bolt. They nest on top of the bridge towers. When someone goes up there to service the bridge, the falcons get pissed off. If they are there, you have to leave. BAD-ASS birds!
Wow...this is amazing. Thanks to youtube we all get to see a lot of amazing stuff. Thanks for the publisher too!
It's not a matter of how thin the air is. It's about how amazing it is that a living being can fall at a top speed of around 200 mph, come out of that free fall, and correct itself back to normal flight speed with nothing to help it do such things but it's own limbs.
Where i live in Sardinia,this bird is really common in the countrysides,i love watching them staying still (in the same place) in the air with their wings open...always wondered how they do it...once i also saw a falcon stooping down to catch a mouse (they have an incredible sight too). it was amazing!
There is something about the video I do not understand. The falcon left the plane first, the scientist released the 'lure' afterwards, yet the 'lure' caught up with the falcon? Was the 'lure's' terminal velocity greater than the peregrine falcon's velocity, with all its aerodynamic qualities?
Great video, by the way.
i've always loved this bird.
absolutely amazing what this bird was engineered for.
lol "this is like karate in the air" that bird is flipping amazing! :)
Great filming!
Amazing! Great footage. I didn't think you would be able to pull it off, but it looks great.
it is always a must to have techno music playing in the background when the awesome Peregrine Falcon does a dive bomb!!!
Gotta love the Peregrine's raw speed!
TOP GUN stuff ... this little fella has my admiration ...
Those are its jesses trailing behind it which is why you see them flair up with each downbeat as it descends. Jesses are tied to each of the falcon's legs and help the falconer hold onto the bird while its on the falconer's glove. Just letting you know =)
I love birds of prey. They’d be my special subject on Mastermind. Golden Eagles can stoop at 300kmh. But 380 plus kmh is just insane. If you watch the full documentary, there’s a sequence where Frightful is in a full dive and then she catches the lure a couple of hundred metres above the ground and pulls out of her dive and lands happily. All that with feathers and hollow bones! Just amazing. I love the natural world.
"My Side of the Mountain" reference ftw with the name Frightful.
awesome book
this bird makes falling things look still. DAMN!
I live in Lexington Ky - years ago, we had a terrible pigeon issue downtown, especially among the taller buildings. Then we introduced the Peregrine to downtown, after a couple of years they took - needless to say, the pigeon problem has been resolved. Granted, we still find headless pigeons and see Falcons downtown, many of them have move to the suburbs - I'll notice my feeders won't have birds for a few days and then I'll notice a dead robin or sparrow on top one of my fence posts.
Pour moi, c'est la vidéo la plus spectaculaire
For me it is the most spectacular video
I just wish there were more videos of this falcons dive!! It's so amazing to see it fly at this speed!! 😯😯
it did not fly, it was falling.
...with style. lol
true true!! 😁
242mph!!!!!!! OMG!! That's mach 0.318 (at sea level, 0.33 at 10,000ft). Wow!! At this speed the compressibility of air becomes significant. At this mach no. the isentropic flow equations show that the air density on the nose of the bird is 5.13% higher than at stationary conditions (at sea level, 5.51% at 10,000ft). Falcon-compressor! Thank you for this video, I had NO idea that anything in nature could reach such a speed.
Now that IS impressive - thanks for posting
Terrific! How exciting, thank you for posting this.
This is my Totem animal. Great respect.
haha when she says "Kens shoot snaps open"
I thought she was going to leave it at..
"Kens shoot snapps"... meaning hes toast haha
this bird simple looks amazing let alone what it can actaully doo.
Another wonderful reason why I never want piss off a falcon. FALCON DIVE!
Seems like it doesnt take any air resistance at all, amazing!
Holy shit, a bird can go almost as fast as the fastest car in the world. Absolutely amazing. God I love nature.
I want to take the audio from the Falcon Punch video and put it on this video so badly.
FALCON PUNCH!
"Captain Falcon!"
"NOOOOOOOO!!!"
During the summer shad run, we would watch as the falcons would climb high over the lake, then close their wings and drop. Every time they would pull up just before crashing into the water's surface and grab an unsuspecting fish. I kept expecting to see one of them break it's neck but, they had the timing perfected.
Because of this, all of the "local yokels" used to call them bass hawks.
Budweiser must have been funding this study, because every time they show dude (except skydiving) he's got a beer in his hand.
Anyone else notice the similarity in shape to the Stealth Bomber. Especially when it is shifting shape for less drag around 2.05?
Astonishing creatures.
Ff (frictional force) = -r(rho, or density of air)×A(area perpendicular to falling direction)×C(constant having to do with shape)×v(velocity)^2
Fg(gravitational force)=m(mass of object)×9.81
and if an object has reached terminal velocity we can say that
Fg=-Ff
so v=[root of](9.81×m/(r×A×C))
and if the mass is bigger it will result in a bigger v, or a bigger terminal velocity. but if you're talking about density, A will be bigger as well resulting in no difference as it is a fraction :-)
its funny how we all get so excited when a car breaks a speed record, but these wonderful creatures not only blaze the air but also catch a bait with precision while freefalling - simply magnificient.
i love hearing sasha's xpander in a wildlife video :-)
I'm absolutely terrified of birds like that (falcons, owls, eagles...) but seeing stuff like this makes me recognize that they are truly amazing creatures!!!.... I don't want them near me though....
I am doing a paper of Peregrine Facons at school. Amazing birds, I want one if I become a falconer. :). and 2:48 is a nice little picture of Frightful
The perigrine is one of natures finest stews in the birch bark pot. We usually mix in some wild camus roots with the berry from the wild blueberry.They are somewhat difficult to catch: but an AK-47 usually fills the bill. You then put it in a bald eagles nest and let them pluck it, but pull it out before they devour it. You can then invite the eagles for dinner; thinking ahead for the next meal you know. Nature often offers you a great balancing act.
That's just too, way too cool! Love it!!!!
Also there is a 2.02% rise in the absolute air temperature at the nose of the bird, so for example if the ambient air is at 15C then the air at the nose of the bird rises to 20.7C ;-)))
the peregrine moves like a boss
They named it Frightful!!! Just like in My Side of the Mountain! I love that book! :)
Even if you dropped "Formula One -driver Michael Schumacher" he wouldn't beat the falcon.
Respect for the bird.
My budgies might, perhaps, reach 40 miles per hour.
Enough for flying in our rooms- airspace - lol.
Thanks for the upload of that very interesting , very educational video.
Best regards from Rainer, Federal Republic of Germany
ps : I beg your pardon for my poor English, I'm still learning
The record today is 242 MPH!!! Absolutely amazing.
Peregrine Falcons are awesome !!!!
when the falcon was going down so fast and didn't open its wings I was like oh crap i think it just forgot how to fly!...lol
I always have a picture in my head of some little kid throwing a penny off the Empire State Building or something and a falcon coming out of nowhere at 242 mph and snaggin the penny out of mid-air.
The F-16 really deserves it's perfect name...!;)
Long live the Falcon!:D
240mp/h is insane, but what I find more amazing, is that it can hunt at that speed and pull out of a dive to grab little objects. Amazing...
Amazing how they get the bird to come back wow.
I love how they're playing a remix of DJ Sasha's "XPander" in the background...great song.
These are amazing creatures
Indeed it is magnificent.
falcon and the cheetah are, for me, the most fascinating animals ever.
We havea group of Falcons in Atlanta!!!!! Not bad this year - prolly not a Super Bowl team - but not bad!!!!
IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!
This is more beautiful to watch than any fighter plane, and I am a big fighter plane fan.
I think the F-16, manouverable and amazing plane that it is, hasn't got a thing on the real falcon.
i had my own falcon backinadays.. he is gone, sad memory..
Lol I guess they kinda mixed this up. Good spotting. Falcons are my favourite animal
they had a velocity measuring device on the falcon, if I remember the tv show correctly. Falcons can dive well over 200 mp/h. In level flight, they are just like other birds though, slower than some, even.
what an amazing creature.
I love the Corona just chilling at 0:58
SCIENCE
You know some burnout falcon working a day job is going to watch this and think, "I could so go faster."
i cant stop watching
Falcons bones are designed different than ours. I doubt that bird weighs 6Ibs. I was driving down the interstate last week going about 80mph and all of a sudden a hawk or something swooped pass me. It looked like it was going to land in front of my car but all of a sudden swerved and hit the ground. It was after something but I didn't get to see if it caught it. Now I have a lot more respect for these birds of prey after seeing that impact of the ground first hand.
An amazing birds eye view.
The way the falcon had her wings ever so slightly open at the shoulders made me think she was channeling a stream of air in the passage between her folded wing and body, like an F-4 Phantom's engines. At the speeds she was flying, feather steering would be difficult. Was she channeling streams of air like jet engines to steer? Maybe changing the aperture of each 'jet' to steer differentially?
A truly amazing raptor or bird of prey. I saw a peregrine falcon in the wild hit a pigeon with such great force that you could hear the impact and then the pigeon hit the near by building with another loud thump at which point it was totally knocked out and the falcon landed on the pigeon going in for the kill. That is until a loud and boisterous colleague scared off the peregrine falcon. Falcons are very skittish. Amazing enough, the pigeon came around and flew off.
The gravitational constant is reduced by distance from Earth's center. Joseph Kittinger attained a speed of 614 mp/h in freefall from an altitude of 31,300 meters - at that altitude g-force is reduced, but air resistance is very low; hence, his ridiculously high speed fall.
Imagine what the Falcon would be going through, ramming something at the cruising speed of a spitfire.
They're playing Xpander by Sasha in the background....that makes me like this video 100 times more