- A crow will never be a falcon. ~ Ukranian Proverb
- A wise falcon hides his talons. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Don’t let the falcon loose until you see the hare. ~ Chinese Proverb
- He who has no falcon must hunt with an owl. ~ Danish Proverb
- My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure. ~ William Shakespeare
- The falcon and the dove sit there together, and th’ one of them doth prune the other’s feather. ~ Michael Drayton
- The falcon does not struggle when he is caught. ~ Moroccan Proverb
- The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. ~ Sun Tzu
- The raven sees its chickens as falcons. ~ Turkish Proverb
- The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. ~ Muhammad Iqbal
- Adult falcons have thin tapered wings, which enable them to fly at high speed and to change direction rapidly. Fledgling falcons, in their first year of flying, have longer flight feathers which makes their configuration more like that of a general-purpose bird such as a broadwing. This makes it easier to fly while learning the exceptional skills required to be effective hunters as adults.
Peregrine Falcons have been recorded diving at speeds of 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), making them the fastest-moving creatures on Earth.~ Wikipedia
