She’s a bird ambassador at Christine’s Critters, Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3) created in 2015 whose mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and release injured birds of prey. NOTE: The beautiful Peregrine Falcon featured in this story is named Equinox.
So the next time someone tells you that you have “eyes like a hawk,” you might want to say to them that seeing the world through a falcon’s eyes is pretty amazing too. The ability to see UV give falcons an advantage when hunting.Īnimals like mice and voles leave behind feces trails that are like neon trails of the animals themselves. UV Not only can falcons see things more clearly than humans, but their eyes also allow them to see ultraviolet light (UV), humans can’t see. READ: FLYING WITH A RED-TAILED HAWK Falcons See UV Light One fovea focusing on fine details right in front of you and the other looking at an object further away. This is best described as seeing the world through both a macro and zoom lens simultaneously. It provides visual information about close objects on their sides. The second fovea, the deep fovea, is lateral-looking. The shallow fovea is forward-looking focused, providing binocular vision allowing falcons to see objects far away and judge distances. Having two foveae allows birds of prey to focus on more objects at a time. Peregrines Falcons have binocular Vision Two Foveae are Better Than One This allows a substantial part of their field of vision to be processed through the most visually clear part of the retina, creating a hyper vision for a much more detailed image. Peregrines Binocular VisionĪnd falcons and other raptors have two foveae in each eye (humans have one in each eye) helping it see better. The fovea is the part of the eye responsible for our sharpest vision and used for activities where we need to see the greatest details.īirds of prey have around one million cones in their fovea. Humans have roughly 30,000 cones in our fovea. Their visual sensory cells, rods (perceiving luminance) and cones (perceiving color), are more tightly packed. To us, it’s like seeing a rabbit from 17.6 football fields. Peregrines and other birds of prey can spot their prey more than one mile away. These birds live in a much faster world than humans.Īnd the ability to see the world in great detail is what allows birds of prey to be extraordinary hunters. Peregrine Falcon see the world in incredible detail
READ: SAVE OUR RAPTORS, DON’T USE RODENTICIDE Peregrines See World in Impeccable Detailīut birds of prey, like the Peregrine Falcon, developed a faster FFF for avoiding obstacles and having a quicker reaction time while hunting.īirds of Prey process much more visual information than humans because their FFF is higher than 100 Hertz per second. When we’re driving a car at higher speeds, our ability to see obstacles decreases. When humans move faster than these speeds, the world appears blurrier to us. Human vision has an FFF of 60Hz, which works best with walking and running speeds.
It’s defined as the frequency at which an intermittent light stimulus appears to be completely steady to the average human observer. This rate is referred to as the Flicker Fusion Frequency (FFF).
Human brains evolved to comprehend anything above 60Hz (or flashes of light) per second as a solid stream of light. If a peregrine is capable of hunting in a 180 MPH dive, then nature outfitted this bird to function in a world moving much faster than our own.Ī peregrine’s brain evolved to provide these birds with a hyper vision capable of processing images at a higher speed than human brains. Peregrine Falcons dive at speeds faster than 180 MPH in pursuit of prey and lock in and snatch it mid-air Falcon’s Hyper Vision Peregrine Falcon’s eyesight is 8 times better than humans The expressions, “eyes like a hawk,” “watching someone like a hawk” or “eagle-eyed” refers to the amazing eyesight of all birds of prey, not just eagles and hawks.īut what about the incredible eyesight of the Peregrine Falcon?īeing falcon-eyed means having bright and keen eyesight. The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) is the fastest animal alive.
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