ANTI FEAR LIST THURSDAY (IT IS A BIG ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR ME TO KNOW WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IT IS WHILE ON BREAK)

• Matching with Tiffany at Jerome Cash Penney
• TV Yule log
• Wait that's LAMB?
• Telling Andrew my conspiracy theory about Strobel
• Napping at Emma's house and learning that I snore
• Brawling with Carlotta
• Blake crashing my rehearsal with Pierson and making it all about himself
• Singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas with Johnny in matching winter garments
• Watching The Hobbit with John and Rob and Dylan
• Playing and singing Christmas carols with Odie
• Odie cuddled my head which is the most she's ever let me cuddle
• Sleep over on the big couch with Odie and Hava
• The great car icicle scraping of 2013

These pictures are from last week but I got them this week :}

And this week

An Article I Wrote for the School Newspaper

“HAIRY LEGS!” My friend awoke with a scream, opened the van door, and ran to the restroom. We were attempting to sleep at a rest stop, on our way to a mission trip. I looked to my left at the vacated seat and then to my right at another friend and his hairy legs. Finally I looked down at my own legs, also hairy, and I couldn’t determine whose hairy legs had caused the flight. I don’t shave.

My reasons are simple. I don’t want to. I don’t have to. I do not like wasting my time removing hair that I don’t mind. Besides, the hair starts to grow back immediately. I don’t like nicking myself, especially because it risks activating my MRSA. I don’t like the thought of wasting $10,000, the amount of money the average woman spends in a lifetime on hair removal products. Nothing about shaving is appealing.

Your opinion won’t sway me. I’m aware that there will always be people repulsed by the fact that some girls don’t shave. That’s fine. Different people are attracted to different things. But talking behind someone’s back doesn’t accomplish anything. Chances are, if a girl doesn’t shave, she’s got a lot of confidence and an unshakable will. I can attest to the fact that, the only thing talking behind such a female’s back will get you, is a girl angered by the fact that such sentiments weren’t brought to her face. And angry girls are scary. A boy once said to me, “As much as I love you, you’re dismissed.” I was unimpressed by the fact that, after I stated my right to control my own body, his argument consisted of a lie, a condescending demand, and a lack of reasoning.

I am not alone in my choice to not shave. Jr. Lily Peters said, “There are a lot of reasons I don't shave. For one, it always seemed unnecessary. My leg hair is naturally very light and not many people notice it right away. In middle school, that and laziness were my only reasons not to shave. But when I got into high school, I really started to think about why girls shave their legs. From what I've seen, girls shave their legs because that is the social norm and because anything less may be seen as gross or ugly. For me, those aren't good reasons. What I do with my body is up to only me. I don't think unshaven legs are gross or ugly, and that's all that matters.”

You are entitled to your own views. But my body belongs only to me. I don’t shave, because I don’t want to. 

ANTI FEAR LIST THURSDAY

Watching the squirrel community during journalism

Speed walking down the halls with Mrs Pierson

Dancing with an elderly blind man at a woswe concert

Mrs Pierson's first words to Mr Dale Pierson, "you make me sick"

Month of caring with campus life

"Issues" coffee with Keyanna

Concert with soap pop and dickle pill and Dylan ate all the pudding and Sophi ate all the ice cream at Chinese

A wild Jon Van Oss appeared in the choir room

Lunch with Hannah and Jon and sure I want to talk about boys said Jon

Laying down sick Christmas beats with Emma and Rowsey

Mrs Florip was with vocs not dead! 

Crying on command though I can't drop my nose

Days and days of cake

Throwing my wallet at the wall ceiling

ANTI FEAR LIST THURSDAY

• Mitten war and winter apparel and facial expression scrutiny 
• There's a tiny spider on the computer screen as I type
• Putting a giant cinnamon roll in my belly
• Having coffee with many people because many people I knew happened to be at JP's
• Adventure with Emma and friends 
• Knowing my youth leaders got my back when I tell the tale of having no toes
• Holiday tea with Woswe!
• Walking through centennial park at night in some of the first fluffy Michigan snow. 
• Project to befriend grizzly the dog
• Team Roth Coughenour Fergus's story idea
• Sluggo's with Addie and Ally and Bailey and Sam in footie pajamas
• Battle for shotgun, lost but fun
• Leading caroling! 
• Glee with Jordan
• Hanukkah Santa
• Nice tawn

ANTI FEAR LIST THURSDAY

1. Darjeeling tea: cool name, cool taste, cool time when i obtained it, cool movie called The Darjeeling Limited
2. "I'm going to name my daughter Keeley" 
3. I gave Mrs. Pierson a large rock today and told her it's name is horse, and she just went along with it and told me what table I should put it on
4. Making a turban, I will make an even better turban though
5. Going along for the ride not the doughnut on an Eco friendly doughnut run
6. Calvin the coworker, in response to my manager questioning what he wants, "Pizza."
7. Going to Stu Visser Sunday after a long long weekend and giving a frozen toad some sumac and stitting on the log and just being with God and not wishing to leave
8. Fro Yo with the Kniepers
9. Being best friends with Tiffany at work and wearing animals together
10. Taking a nap for the first time in a very long time
11. Andrew teaching Odie the term "knee slapper"
12. Watching the beginning of the Hobbit with Ian and Kaylee and Andrew but then allowing myself to fall asleep, only after Bilbo exclaimed, "I'm going on an Adventure!" 
13. Running into Mr. Roth at JP's and talking about The Book Thief and duuh I know Thanksgiving isn't celebrated in South America 
14. Pierson t shirt
15. Matching raccoons with Annie

Try

I get really frustrated when people refuse to try. That's hurtful to others, it implies that you don't care enough. It impedes oneself, how will you ever grow or learn or live life to its fullest if you don't even try? Thrive in your efforts to better yourself.

I used to wave around my anxiety as something to gain attention and as an excuse. That was dumb. Now I can feel proud that I have overcome. I don't get worked up about as many little things as I used to and it leaves brilliant room to grow and serve God and be independent.

Don't act like fear impedes you from trying. You harming yourself and people who invest in you. 

Animal of the Day: Turkey

I know these have become sparse because my schedule is bountiful but today I have time and this break I have had the desire to write (and I shall put more of that toward AP Lit and Journalism and Scholarships) but for now, Turkeys!

Today's domesticated turkeys are descendant of the wild turkeys of Mexico. Turkey's got their name, despite being native to the Americas, because Spain imported domesticated to Great Britain from Turkey and surrounding countries.

Adult males are called Toms and Gobblers. Teenage turkey males are called Jakes.

When a male turkey gets excited his wattle and snood fill with blood and turn red and his face becomes blue, unless he is ready to fight, then his whole face turns red. The snood is the eloquent flap of skin that hangs overs  a male turkey's beak.

Turkeys harbor from 5000 to 6000 feathers. I bet you thought I was going to write germs or parasites or something more gross than feathers.

Males and some females have small beards that grow from their breast.

Wild turkeys are agile flyers. A turkey gobble can be heard a mile away

What better day than Thanksgiving for ANTI FEAR LIST THURSDAY!

1. Elderly dutch lady I saw downtown admiring the music statue and when the music came in she delightedly exclaimed, "muziek!"
2. Visiting the TARDIS with the Kniepers
3. Left handed football catch for fairness and my finger's sake. 
4. Muffled pterodactyls
5. Cabbage and creepy Abi stage humor
6. Extremely kind and considerate (do you call male baristas baristos?) who warmed my jp's thermos before filling it with coffee because it had been sitting in the cold
7. Reuniting with Raquel and talk of future adventures and doodle and armadillo exchange and mocha peppermint latte
8. Ally's talk of the magicalness of lady finger bananas
9. Mrs. Pierson's speech on why I should get my finger looked at and then finishing it off by allowing me to take a spoon only if i stopped all arguments
10. Being confused because an Australian guy answered the phone when I called AMC
11. Impromptu quest to GR with Sophi to see Day of the Doctor but it was sold out so I sang and played an angsty snowman uke song but we watched Catching Fire which was superb 
12. Joe forgets what a camel is called

Sophomore Choir!

I was going to re write an essay because I am in a writing mood except I don't agree with the corrections that are asked of me so instead I shall write of Sophomore year of West Ottawa choir.

Sophomore year I became a member of the West Ottawa Select Women's Ensemble. I remember how much I looked up to the upper classmen of the choir and how amazed I was to find myself in  a choir with them. My choir skills greatly improved as WOSWE is a fast paced, high level choir.

We traveled to Fort Wayne for a conference called ACDA. We sang some of the most beautiful literature I feel I shall ever sing such as "Faith is the Bird" and "When it was yet Dark." I believe singing "When it was yet Dark," which tells of Mary Magdalene's distress at finding the empty tomb, was the first time I felt shudders of emotion run through my body while singing with a choir. Music is powerful, even more so when voices join and dwell together in the same story and emotions.

Fort Wayne was a lot of fun and I made memories involving Chinese food in beautiful churches, accidental very odd disruptive noises, "Glorious Church", ranch, baby changing stations, awkward encounter with prestigious composer, and the best of all, Mrs. Pierson and Mr. Pierson performing a traditional African dance.

For the first quarter of the year I could not be in Concert Choir due to scheduling conflicts. I was not happy. I felt like I was missing out on a family. I remember the joyous day my schedule allowed me to reunite with my choir family. Mrs. Pierson had the choir sing to me and I felt home.

Sophomore year I became very close with our choir accompanist at the time, Ms. Bergsma. She was like a big sisterly role model to me. She always shared food in exchange for doodles and water colors I made for her A group of friends and I and she loved to eat outside the choir room, under a tree, at lunch. She had a purple zebra blanket choir kids would thieve at different intervals for warmth and comfort.

Choir is what connected me with theater. After many self conscious and unsuccessful auditions in middle school, I auditioned for Lord of the Flies and was gifted the opportunity to play Piggy. The experience was unique and growing. We shaped the show to be a message against bullying so I called upon many bad memories from middle school life and dangerous places dearly loved friends of mine had been in. But it was healing, and fun to act and to this day I love acting.

Near the end of the school year I was blessed with the opportunity to travel to New York City with WO choirs. I got lost multiple times, once in a giant Macy's, and once in the hun and suits of armor exhibit of the Metro Museum. I formed closer relationships with fellow choir members. Improvisational uke songs on a long bus ride does that to you. We also had meaningful experiences such as visiting the 9/11 memorial and singing in a retirement home. Mrs. Pierson preaches that she would not travel with us if there were no singing and no growing opportunities. Based on the many fun adventures I had in NYC I know Canada will be a blast.

I shall end my rambles here. To check out my Oh Canada! progress go here: http://www.gofundme.com/53tr1s

I

I want to have dreams again. Literal dreams

Anti fear list Thursday!

1. Medival names 

2. Rango and errrrrban outfiteeeeerrrs with Soap and Thom

3. Mu Shu's great flight over the volleyball net

4. Dylan following me around JAmes CAsh Penney and keeping me company

5. Healing process complete I think

6. Human penguin

7. Mr Kukla shall wear an earring once more! 

8. Micah clarifying she was handing me a dollar for the offering, not for myself

9. New adventure coat

10. Grizzly the dog who almost almost let me pet him

11. Cuddling with Annie in English and sharing weird pomegranate arils that aren't so good as just eating a pomegranate 

11. Princess story booyah

Belated Anti Fear!

1. Post youth group jam sessions
2. Parker's wonderful speech
3. Being funny AND making Cabel uncomfortable
4. Reuniting with Daniel!
5. Daniel dropping a boulder on me
6. Princess dress
7. Escaping work for the pac tunnels and kissy wall
8. Coke fountain
9. The log with Annie and thrifting with Annie
10. Unravel the tape interpretative art dance
11. Conspiracy about Jesus teenager
12. Escaping into the first snow haha you left the courtyard open

West Ottawa Choir - The beginning

I remember going in to the high school choir room for the first time, anxiously awaiting my audition. There was a tall Hawaiian guy and a woman draped in a purple zebra blanket sitting behind the piano. I was very confused.

The Hawaiian guy came to be one of my best friends my freshman year, Andrew Klein; he showed me the ropes of West Ottawa choir. Particularly, how to befriend Mrs. Pierson. Admittedly, Mrs. Pierson terrified me at first. She takes music, seriously, as it ought to be taken. Music should be inseparable from emotion. She has helped me to now feel as though, if one does not feel an emotional connection when they sing, they are singing for the wrong reasons and should not participate in  a choir. Andrew Klein got me in trouble regularly for talking out of turn in class (One time, him and our friend Mackenzie decided to poke each of my sides. I was not good with being poked or touched so I screamed and fell on the floor in the middle of a song. Mrs. Pierson was not so happy) , but he also taught me about Mrs. Pierson which, I suppose, made up for the trouble.

The woman wrapped in a blanket was Ms. Bergsma, our old choir accompanist. She is very good at giggling and very very talented at the piano. Ms. Bergsma resigned this past year, but it was a joy having her for my Freshman through Senior year. I shall expand on her more when I make my post about sophomore year, for that is when I remember that my relationship with her started to grow.

Ms. Verdonk was our student teacher my freshman year. At first, I was annoyed that she would sit between Andrew Klein and I and put a cork in our constant talking. But I opened my eyes to the fact that she was doing her job and causing me to do a better job at my own job, paying attention and singing. Ms. Verdonk is quirky and energetic and loves purple and her and Ms. Bergsma became best friends and it was a joy to be friend with the two and share in the love.

I made many friendships in Concert Choir, the choir I have been in since freshman year. To this day Danny and Caleb and Mackenzie and Ricky and Parker, just to name a few, and I reminisce on the many odd and wonderful occurrences of concert choir.

Freshman year, choir meant friends to me. Middle school was rough and offered few friends. I was relentlessly bullied by the majority of my class. When I came to be part of a community that accepted me, even thought I was funny and precious, I knew I had struck gold.

I didn't know it at the time, but freshman year as I stepped into West Ottawa choir, I stepped into one of the biggest influences on my life.

Help support my last hurrah trip to Canada with West Ottawa Choirs: http://www.gofundme.com/53tr1s

Despite the high level of embarrassment some of these or all of the pictures involved, here is a collection of freshman year choir pictures,

ANTI FEAR LIST THURSDAy!

1. Ice cream fundraiser with Oddie and Hava and Micah

2. Compliment battle with Piper

3. Too big tux shoulder

4. The adjective deliciously

5. Rainbow zebra

6. Licking initiation

7. Large coke fountain

8. Learning to not punch and kick people when they stick a paintbrush in your ear

9. Parker delivering coffee to me in first hour so I wouldn't get a tardy

10. Giggling to sleep with Keyanna and Leslie and finding love for sitting on kitchen floors in common with Breanna

11. Squeaking with friends at red robin

12. Mary Poppins shoes 

For

For a long time when I played and sung a song I was thinking of the wrong person and it never satisfied but just now I thought of God and it fulfilled

LATE ANTI FEAR LIST

1. Long riddle quest

2. Mrs Pierson thriving in my laugh cry

3. ACDA and cat dog petting place and accidental punch and crying during Dvorak 

4. Beautiful The Book Thief

5. Team work in art to brainstorm Addie's phone number technique

6. Thomas bringing two coffees is one placebo?

7. Black light games at campus life

8. Mistaking worm for slug

9. Alma meeting

10. Sassy head set banter

Oh Canada!

West Ottawa choir has blessed me these past four yeasr in so many ways that a. I could never recount them all and b. one would grow tired of reading such a long email. But some of the highlights have been that I met Mrs. Pierson, my choir teacher who has also become a brilliant role model and a rock. She cares when I'm not doing well,yet pushes me to work hard to fix my own problems. 

Through choir I have made fantastic friends. Choir kids are crazy, diverse, and less judgmental then your typical teen. I have had many laughs with them, often regarding Mrs. Pierson's obsession with horses. I have also been able to turn to them in tough times, the other day I was feeling anxious so I laid my face in my friend Annie's lap and cried a puddle on to her pants. But that is beside the point. 

West Ottawa choir has immersed me in beautiful music. Music helps me express my feelings when I have no words or no understanding to explain them. I have laughed at the end of songs, and I have cried at the end of songs. Music is powerful and it helps me conquer anxiety and find joy.

I have reached my senior year and these our my last days with West Ottawa choir and I am striving to appreciate every single one. This past weekend I traveled to a music conference in Flint for the day with West Ottawa Select Women's Ensemble. Throughout the long day trip I felt so much joy as well as an awareness that I should soak up one of my last WO choir experiences. I gave Mrs. Pierson many hugs that day. The only reason I decided against graduating a semester early was the thought of missing out on choir. 

One of the last opportunities I have to travel and sing and love my West Ottawa choirs is approaching. We will be taking a trip to Toronto, Canada in May. On this trip we will sing, go to a renaissance dinner, visit a science museum, WATCH LION KING AT THE PRINCESS OF WALES THEATRE, sight see, and I can expand upon our itinerary if anyone is interested. (I will also have many stories to share after the trip)

I would deeply appreciate financial support if you are willing or able to give it. The trip will cost about $650 (a great deal for such an opportunity). I hold a job and am working to save my own money, but I also must be conscientious in regards to saving for college. Currently, one way you can support me, is taking part in our century resources fundraiser. The link below leads to the website which has many products, especially delicious chocolate. 

Thank you so much for reading what I have to say. 

Sincerely, Abigail Fergus

www.helpourgroup.com

Here's what you do:
1. Click on the link to enter the store
2. When prompted, enter the code 29797 and then my name, Abigail Fergus, and grade, 12
3. Order as much as you would like
4. Check out
5. Enjoy the products; they will be sent directly to you

Anti fear list Thursday!

1. Pizza cancer

2. Spear drawing Sunday school

3. Intense gaga ball at campus life

4. Fearless cat walk

5. Muppet hand gloves

6. Piano top art

7. Annie to small group 

8. Mr. You adventure

9. Mr. Strobel striving to cheer me up

10. Mrs Pierson knowing my Kungala inclined brain

I don't think I eavesdrop

The other day a friend jokingly accused me of eavesdropping. I had been walking by while a group was wondering aloud about something or another and I knew the answer to their query so I turned and let them know what they had been wondering.

I do the same thing at work, I'll be going to put something in it's place, or desperately looking for something to clean so that time would maybe please just pass by quicker, when I here a customer wonder to another customer about something. I turn to them and answer a question they had not asked me.

My ears aren't tuned toward these people. I'm not trying to listen in on what you're saying! I'm not about that hot gossip life. I think I am just attuned to other people's emotions and thoughts and what not so well that I pick up on when people need help. And I love helping people so I struggle to refrain from helping, even when it's not asked.

So I don't think I eavesdrop. God has blessed me with a gift to understand other people (one of the reasons I want to be a youth pastor) and I don't suppress the gift when unnecessary.

ANTI FEAR LIST THURSDAY

• Armadillo and penguin immigration to Michigan plots
• Bonfire
• Made it in time for worship team
• Jablko
• Frozen Pizza and Pitch Perfect after party after concert with Jordan and Raquel
• Bonding with Sarah over escape from Doctor Who guy
• I just love my small group so much and cuddling on couches and Breanna's puppet man news
• Mr Kukla appreciates my talent at singing slavic songs though he didn't let me sharpen that thing he was sharpening and causing sparks to fly
• Donut Wednesday!
• Buying coffee at that snickers thing from the have a cookie guy
• Reuniting with Meghan and hearing her lovely stories!
• The kohl's family baking invite
• Mr. Strobel's large use of the word "surely"
• Giant cinnamon bun chocolate thing from Emma
• Meow meow meow

Animal of the Day: Dugong!

One time in eighth grade my dad informed me that manatees are also called Dugongs.

Dugongs live in the waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.

They are in the family Sirenia, which gets its name from Siren, because sailors used to mistake blubbery sea cows for lovely fish ladies. Dugong comes from a a Malay word that means "lady of the sea."

Dugongs have a fluked tail, like a dolphin, but unlike manatees who have a curved tail uninterrupted by fluke.

Dugongs must stay near shores to obtain their delicious sea grass diet.

Dugongs are most closely related to elephants, hyraxes, and aardvarks. Quite an oddly delightful bunch!

The Dugong's two nipples lie beneath their flippers.

Dugongs have been found to live up to 73 years old.

Dugongs make a lot of echoing vocalizations to each other, a bit like whales.

Animal of the Day: Cassowary

Cassowaries are flightless birds who dwell in New Guinea, Australia, and near by islands.

The southern cassowary is the third tallest, and second heaviest bird.

Cassowaries are related to other birds such as the kiwi bird, the elephant bird, emus, and ostriches.

As opposed to most birds, the female cassowary is bigger and colorful than the male.

Cassowaries have many small "wings" that are like porcupine quills without barbs. They have a claw on each second finger of the wings. Cassowaries have dagger like claws on the center toe of their three toed feet.

Cassowaries have crests on their heads that are spongy.

Cassowaries can run up to 30 mph and jump up to 5 feet. They are also skilled at swimming.

It is believed that cassowaries live 40 to 50 years.

Cassowary women do not tolerate each other, they ain't about that girlfriend having life.

Sometimes cassowaries defend fruit trees to have the fruit to themselves. They swallow fruits such as banans and apples whole.

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Sometimes people are cowards

ANTI FEAR LIST THURSDAY

1. Mr Strobel thinking of Life of Pi when I told him I want to be a zookeeper and a youth pastor
2. Breanna's brownies
3. I'm dang hot
4. Biking to the bus stop and the man who helped me put my bike on the bus bike rack
5. Hanging out with Grace and Oddie
6. My battle wound from having blood drawn
7. Making monkey bread with Raquel
8. Campus life paint war
9. Winning over west ottawan customers with my newsie outfit
10. Mrs. Pierson confiding that there is a hole when I am not around 
11. KUNGALA. "Abi you have your outbursts at the strangest times" even though I feel my outbursts are at logical times
12. Walmart and cafe au le (how do i even spell that) with Parker
13. Adventures with Grace Hough birthday girl and friends!
14. I learned I have heterochromia iridum

Animal of the Day: Lemming!

First a story: One time I was trying to tell josh about lemmings but I forgot their name and called them lennons so I now sometimes imagine a lot of little lemmings running around with John Lennon's face.

Lemmings are arctic rodents.

Lemmings do not hibernate; in the winter they burrow through snow for food and eat grass clippings they store earlier in the year.

Lemming populations fluctuate so violently that they regularly reach numbers near extinction.

Lemmings have very obvious color, and act aggressively towards predators rather than hiding or fleeing.

Many odd misconceptions are and have been held regarding lemmings. Some used to think they fell from the sky and then died when the grass sprung. Currently, many believe lemmings commit mass suicide by running off of cliffs. This misconception was helped spread by a Disney documentary that staged and caused the death of many lemmings. Lemmings do not commit suicide, they do sometimes die during their migrations, but they do not jump off of cliffs.

Animal of the Day: Wildebeest!

Wildebeest is Dutch for wild beast. Wildebeest are also known as gnu.

Wildebeest are a type of antelope.

A fully grown wildebeest is nearly five feet at the shoulder and weights 600 pounds.

The wildebeest migrates every year based on where the water is. The migration is a dangerous and some of the herd ends up eaten by crocodiles, lions, leopards, and cheetahs.

Wildebeest are, however, powerful and can cause harm to the lions. They are also capable of running up to 50 mph.

The herd keeps the young, more vulnerable wildebeest on the inside of the herd while traveling. At night, the wildebeest have shifts as lookouts while the others sleep.

Wildebeest and zebras team up and graze together to cause each individual less risk of being hunted.

Wildebeest can understand the warning calls of other animals such as baboons.

Animal of the Day: Giraffe!

The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of all animals.

Giraffes can run at up to 35 mph, but usually cruise at 10 mph.

Giraffes usually stay in packs of about 6.

Giraffes chew their cud like cows.

A giraffe's tongue is 18 inches long.

Giraffes only drink once every several days because it is an awkward, difficult, and dangerous experience. They are vulnerable to predators and have to splay their legs.

Giraffes fall 5 feet to the ground when born.

Male giraffes neck wrestle for dominance.

ANTI FEAR LIST THURSDAY

1. Driving with Spaghetti and then telling Thomas what was up with me driving around the PAC parking lot with spaghetti
2. Snickers coffee thing that is mostly not coffee and biking to and from church and having Abi day
3. Magic trick anatomy physics trick thing
4. Reminiscing with peers about childhood things like Freddie fish
5. Successful college application essay
6. Jason Segel as Nick in Freaks and Geeks
7. Small group with the future promise of fantastic mr fox
8. Mrs. Pierson dancing to what does the fox say?
9. Fortune cookie of truth and Annie
10. Knows lot about animals really weird but really funny

Animal of the Day: Peregrine Falcon!

The female Peregrine is larger than the male. Peregrines are monogamous.

The typical Peregrine can reach 200 mph making it the fastest animal in the world. The fastest individual was recorded at 242 mph.

The Peregrine can be found nearly every beside polar regions, New Zealand, high mountains, and some rain forests.

Peregrine means wandering.

The Peregrine's beak is notched at the tip to allow for spinal severing.

Peregrines are re-known for their stoop. To kill their bird prey, the Peregrine dives steeply into the other bird's wing. The Peregrine have small things called tubercles that deflect the rushing air away from their nostrils so that the extremely high air pressure does not kill the bird. The Peregrine uses its tears to clear vision and get rid of debris while diving.

Peregrines are sometimes used to keep birds away from airports. In WWII they were used to intercept homing pigeons.