INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

The most expensive road bike is a Harley sold for $800,100 to David P. Steiner on E-bay as part of the Tsunami relief fund. It was made famous on the Jay Leno show in the States.

Harley-Davidson donated the 2005 FLHR Road King and some of the celebrities that signed the bike were Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dustin Hoffman, Jeff Gordon, Donald Trump, Denzel Washington, Sylvester Stallone, Demi Moore, and many others.

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Originally Posted by Law

The Peregrine Falcon has been logged by radar reaching speeds of 114mph, wonder if he'll contest that speed in court

If it was a Peregrine Falcon then it will by definition be a female, not a male. The species is a Peregrine. The gender is falcon.I think!!

Peregrine is the fastest moving bird in the world reaching speeds of up to 350 kph (217 mph) when stooping after prey. To enable it to breathe at this speed, it has special baffles on its nostrils which control breathing. The high speed stoop means that whilst hunting by this method the peregrine must catch its prey on the wing to avoid injuring itself on impact.

The name peregrine comes from the verb to peregrinate, meaning to wander, and it seems that the peregrine was so called because of its habit, out of the breeding season, of moving to where food is plentiful. This ties with the German name Wanderfalke.

The peregrine has been popular as a falconers bird for centuries and was once protected by Royal decrees, reserving it for use by kings and nobles. Since the war, trained peregrines have been used at many military airbases to clear runways of birds.

The falconers term tiercel gentle for the male peregrine comes from tierce meaning third, due to the male being a third smaller than the female, and gentle from the Middle Ages concept of gentilesse meaning nobility of character.

according to RSPB site

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The high speed stoop means that whilst hunting by this method the peregrine must catch its prey on the wing to avoid injuring itself on impact.

217mph into the ground if it only injured itself it'd be lucky. Falcon jam anyone

PS. Falcon is the species.

Peregrine the name for that variant its latin name being Falco peregrinus.
The Merlin is also a Falcon and named Falco columbarius. The Kestrel is of the same family - Falco tinnunculus

Re the Kestrel a few facts from that RSPB site:

Kestrel is the only raptor in Britain to hunt by persistent hovering. The only other raptor that sometimes hovers is the buzzard.

Kestrels have a proportionately long tail, which distinguishes them from other falcons, but can sometimes be confused with a sparrowhawk.

Many kestrels from north-west Europe winter in the UK, while only very few British birds migrate to the continent for the winter.

Shake and Vac.....

Elvis Costello wrote the song to the ad, and his Dad was the guy in the R. Whites Lemonade ad.

FACT

People who search for existence of the Yeti, Big Foot, Loch Ness Monster etc are called cryptozoologists.

The word derives from crypto which is greek for hidden, and means effectively these people are looking for "hidden" animals.

By hidden animals its meant those thought to exist but which there is no conclusive proof, or those thought to be extinct from which various sightings are still reported.

[Stingo]

Today it rained...



I cleaned the bike....




Outside....




in the rain....FACT.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Stingo

Today it rained...



I cleaned the bike....




Outside....




in the rain....FACT.

Snap...

but I finshed her off in the garage..... ohhhh errr vicker.

The first Eurovision song contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland in 1956.

Britain has won the contest 5 times, and come second 15 times.

Ireland are the only country to have won it three times in succession.