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Published online 24 November 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001130-2

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Falcons spiral in for the kill

Sideways vision means there is more to the prey-plucking plummet of a peregrine falcon than meets the eye.

You are a peregrine falcon -- a hungry one. A plump, slow-flying robin flutters into view.

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