Peregrine Food Transfer - Mom to Fledgling
This is a sequence showing an adult female perigrine falcon (Mom) training a fledgling perigrine falcon (Junior) how to transfer food in flight. Junior makes a dog's lunch of his lunch, but Mom saves the day by diving after the dropped food. I believe she snagged it after a dive of about 100-150 feet.
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.... goes into a legendary Peregrine Falcon 240 MPH dive .....
Peregrine Falcon Food Transfer - Torrey Pines
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