Two Peregrine Falcon chicks are checked before tagging at their nesting box on the top of Sussex Heights block of flats on Brighton seafront. Peregrines are the fastest animals in the world. They are believed to achieve speeds approaching 200km/h (124mph) when plunging from the sky after prey. One has been logged by radar at 183km/h (114mph) after a dive of 305m (1,000ft).7 January 2006 Picture by Roger Bamber

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