peregrine

Sequoia National Park is home to the world’s largest trees and iconic birds including peregrine falcons and bald eagles.

“He is a mix between a bird of prey, like a peregrine falcon, with extremely streamlined shapes — of course a feline but also a Mexican salamander called an axolotl,” Otto says.

"Those birds, in turn, then provide a food source for some of the more charismatic birds, like peregrine falcons or kestrels."

She compares him to a peregrine falcon because “his frame rate operates at an entirely different speed to everybody else’s.”

Ms Merriman said the video appeared to show the starlings had been successful as the peregrine falcon was not seen to get any of the birds.