I had one of these birds fly over my head at almost 300 km per hour, incredible to watch these small raptors when they go into a dive and reach these speeds and target their prey with such military precision. I took this picture in the southern drakensberg mountains with a fully extended 2000 mm fully extended digital zoom.
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is this the one which breaks the speed record while diving wings closed?
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It sounds like a whistle at the speed they dive, sadly they can get injured if they even touch a small branch at those speeds and can often be fatal.
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What beautiful colours in the feathers but its eyes look so mean...
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