Facts about world's fastest bird 

The Peregrine Falcon, which dives at nearly 300km/h, is the fastest bird.

In the northern Kruger National Park, a resident colony of Peregrines breeds close to Lanner Gorge.

Birding in Kruger regularly is fun because the familiar and strange change.

To know one is in Kruger, one needs the Bateleur's ocular confirmation.

A Sooty Tern taken near Satara is an example of the unexpected.

thousands of kilometres from its East African coast and Indian Ocean islands habitat.

The African Pitta*, only seen on the Letaba River, is one of Kruger's rarest birds.