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Peregrine Falcon
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Can fly exceeding 80-miles an hour picking off birds
in flight for his meal. |
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Barred Owl
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The most vocal of the owls with his famous song
"who cooks for you,
who cooks for you all," or
"whose awake, me too."
This silent flying bird can hear
a mouse's heart beat from under snow
cover and knows exactly where
to strike. |
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Red tail Hawk
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The most aggressive of the hawks, with 300 pounds per
square inch (psi)
of
pressure in its talons, only being beat out by the bald
eagle with 500 psi talon
strength. |
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Turkey Vulture
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Can smell carrion (dead meat) from the air a mile away.
As a defense mechanism
they can projectile vomit a combination of putrid
burning acid and rank carrion
into/onto a fox or other animal they may be
having a tussle with at the carcass. |
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