A peregrine falcon. (Pixabay/)The peregrine falcon is best-known as the fastest animal on earth, but it’s got a second superlative: it’s the most wide-ranging bird of prey. Peregrines live on every continent except Antarctica, and make homes everywhere from Papua New Guinea to the desert Southwest to Chicago skyscrapers.Some of those populations breed high in the Arctic tundra, and individual peregrines fly for thousands of miles and across multiple continents to nest on cliff banks along Arctic rivers.New research published today in Nature sheds light on how exactly the furthest ranging birds navigate over such long distances. According to their analysis, it may have to do with the genetics
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