A biologist explains how the peregrine falcon survives dives faster than most sports cars. Here’s why evolution pushed this predator to such terrifying extremes.

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. A lone peregrine falcon perches atop the cross at Christ Episcopal Church, Fifth and Court streets in Reading, on what would be a favorite falcon hunting and observation perch in succeeding years.

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Falcons dive-bomb researchers tagging their chicks A researcher tagging newborn peregrine falcon hatchlings gets repeatedly divebombed by the angry parents.

They were once all but extinct in Massachusetts, but Peregrine falcons have made a comeback in the Bay State. And Massachusetts officials are trying to make sure these falcons are protected.

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