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Hunting and diet
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officers for their help in ensuring that Frodocam will not
disturb Frodo's family.
For
more information about our amazing wildlife, please visit
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Peregrine falcons feed on waterfowl, pigeons, doves,
shorebirds, songbirds, starlings, sparrows and seagulls.
In the city limits they often feed on pigeons, making them
popular residents.
Peregrine falcons are renowned hunters, with unparalleled
speed and vision.
They search for their prey from a great height before
launching into high speed dives (known as stoops), drawing their
wings in close to their body and attacking their prey with the
sun behind them.
At the last moment, the peregrine falcon spreads its wings
and tilts its body back to brake, grasping the prey in its
powerful talons.
Often the prey is stunned or killed on impact. Peregrine
falcons also use their beaks to sever the vertebrae of prey. |
