The animal itself
A peregrine falcon reaches over 380 km/h in a stoop, making it the fastest animal on earth. Its nostrils contain baffles that stop the airflow from bursting its lungs at that speed.1 of 2 calendars · 70 searches a month
Falcon
The falcon is read as distance and a wide field of view. It appears in one of the two birth calendars we cover. The two are presented online as interchangeable, yet they name the same animal on only 17 days of 365 — 4.7% of the year.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Celtic calendar
25 November – 23 December
Its tree
Elder
Only the Celtic calendar assigns this one. Anyone born in these dates gets a different animal from the other system — the two agree on 4.7% of days →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Distance and a wide field of view — deciding from above.
Honoured in: Egyptian Horus; falconry as the sport of Persian and later European courts for over 3 000 years.
Counted across all 39 animals
Where the falcon sits
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
30th
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
Both calendars are published online as though interchangeable. They are not, and the disagreement is the reason two sites can give you different animals for the same birthday. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Falcon is ranked 30 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.