by Hockey Legend
| PEREGRINE FALCON | RESEARCH QUESTION |
|---|---|
 | HOW ARE PEREGRINE FALCONS SUCH GREAT DIVERS. Photo Credit: Soumyajit Nandy [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] |
| SCIENTIFIC NAME: | TYPE | DIET | GROUP | LIFESPAN | SIZE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| falco peregrinus | bird | other birds,road kill | doesn't have a name | up to 17 years | 48.26cm and 1.09728m |
BONES:
- bird bones are light and actually hollow
  |  Keel Shaped Breastbone |
WINGS AND FEATHERS:
- they have streamlined feather which let the air go through so it doesn’t get caught in the wind
MUSCLES AND KEEL
- they have very strong chest muscles attached to a very large keel which helps them fly
Watch this
Peregrine Falcon Sky Dive – Inside the Perfect Predator – BBC
SOURCES:
Peregrine Falcon by National Geographic (WATCH: RIDE ON THE BACK OF A SOARING FALCON on the National Geographic Site)
Photo Credits:
Photo Credit Bird Bone: Henderson State University: Skeletal Adaptations of Birds for Flight
http://www.hsu.edu/Academics/ARNatureTrivia/bird-skeleton-adapt.html
Photo Credit Bird Wing: Graham Doig. Fluids Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Projects – FLIP
http://www.thinkflip.net/flipblog/bird-wing-scanning
Photo Credit Bird Skeleton: by GBS Detroit
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gbsdetroit/gbs-detroit-presents-skeleton-birds
Bio-aerial Locomotion 2011 An EK131/132 “Introduction to Engineering” module
http://blogs.bu.edu/biolocomotion/2011/12/12/why-can-the-peregrine-falcon-fly-so-fast/