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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