Birds are some of the most specialized and efficient hunters ever created by evolution, dominating skies, forests, oceans, and grasslands with incredible speed, vision, stealth, and precision .

Footage of a Peregrine falcon attacking a pelican to protect their babies has the internet struggling to catch its breath.

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.