Over the past two days I have learned a lot about birds thanks to the good folks at PBS.
Yesterday, I watched a program called Raptor Force. Did you know, raptors are nature’s aerial killing machines? When a Peregrin Falcon sees a small bird, such as a grouse, it flies thousands of feet high, twitches its neck and dives. Their signature attack — the stoop. As it falls to the ground, the falcon reaches about 200 miles per hour, swoops in, grabs its prey. It plucks the feathers, then eats.
If only I could remember how they described it on the show. I promised I wouldn’t forget.
Bird, Hummingbird
Almost the opposite of the bird or prey, you could say, is the hummingbird. Dainty and delicate as can be. Today I watched a show about them.
On the show, a woman said something like this, only better: : [Other birds] do not have the ability to hover … that is the magic of the hummingbird.
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