The fastest reliably recorded stoop of a peregrine falcon was 389 kilometres per hour. It steers like a guided missile, hits like a punch at full speed, and was nearly wiped out by a single pesticide within living memory. It recovered. It moved into our cities. And right now, one is probably perched on a building somewhere near you.

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