Faster than a race car and lethal mid-air, this remarkable bird dominates the skies with unmatched speed and precision, raising fresh wonder about how nature created such a hunter.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wednesday, Aug. 27 turned out to be an eventful day, bird-wise. I set out before dawn for the upper reaches of Hoover Reservoir.

They hunt at high speeds, live partly in cities–and technically, they are not birds of prey. Various species of falcons are ...

One of the most amazing and breathtaking things to see in nature is a peregrine falcon hunting. At first, it's just a tiny, distant shape high in the vast sky, but then it transforms into a blur of ...