Acceleration, 9.8 m/s/s

Protip:

Acceleration would be 9.8 m/s/s, 9.8 m/s is a speed

Sorry to be technical but you are quoting velocity at m/s.

Acceleration would be m/s/s

It is certainly accelerating in its dive which is a wonder of nature for sure - a wonder among other things, that they do not injure themselves on contact.

Last thought by the duck.....

Choose one:

1. Didn't see that one coming....

2. Hey! That's not a duck!!

3. This isn't good....

4. Crap!!!!

Back in the day, on the farm I enjoyed watching "sparrow hawks" do their thing.....saw one take a cotton tall and witnessed probably the same bird take a whack at a jack rabbit....no joy but the jack lost more than a bit of fur....

The jack was knocked down by the shear violence of the strike....a second hit woulda probably finished the jack but he gained some cover....

Great one lance video, thanks...

The duck, of course, is not as dead as it would have been, had it landed in an oil slick on a pond at McMurray.

But is the falcon faster than a windmill? Dipwads up in Thunder Bay are telling folks that since the Peregrine Falcon isn't on the endangered list there is no problem putting up another eyesore wind farm to suck more taxpayer's dollars. The 6+% raise in power rates on May 1 doesn't make me any happier either. This in a province that has too much power that they pay others to take it.

I can't believe how much faster these falcons have become over the last couple of decades. Hell, I remember 25 years ago or so they said that these birds were diving at 160 mph. Now it's 250 mph.

What do you figure...steroids in the duck meat, or thinner atmosphere due to AGW?

Pedantictip: The real pros know that the SI unit for acceleration is represented as m/s² ;)

We have peregrines in downtown Edmonton.They are a wonder to watch taking a s&&thawk(seagull) off the North Saskatchewan.They are the only animal that can exceed terminal velocity in a dive,161 mph.Try to imagine a bird of 2 pounds impacting you at that speed.That will take a grown man of 6 feet and 300 pounds down. And there are no magpies around our place. And they do sit and eat from your hand.Beautiful birds.

so how does one exceed terminal velocity with out power ?

Slim,sleek,and areodynamic.

Interesting video, but painful to watch and hear at the end. I happen to like ducks. They are one of the few animals, that as infants, look pretty much like they will when they (perhaps) grown into adulthood.

At the marina where I moor my boat, I always enjoy seeing the mum ducks with 12 or so ducklings swimming behind her. Unfortunatly, for the ducks, we have two permanant bald eagles nests in the trees about two hundred feet away. Day by day, the number of ducklings diminishes.

Nature can be cruel...but it is nature, and must be respected.

"...Nature can be cruel...but it is nature, and must be respected."

Ab-so-lute-ly!

That's what I say every time I see a porcupine through 4X magnification in one of my hemlocks....