[Tucker39]

A mind-boggling trip. If the bird flew an altitude where she had a tailwind of 100 mph or more, she might have had an actual ground speed of 150 mph or even more for portions of the flight.

[xcamel]

The hudsonians are very fast flyers... at least 50-60 mph. Sadly, a small flock got driven right into high tension wires by a sharp shined hawk near my business. 8 of them were killed or seriously wounded.

Our state wildlife pathologist had never seen one, and didn't even have a sample of their DNA or feathers in the state database of over 6,000 birds.