The pilgrim falcon

Widespread all over the world (with the exception of polar regions and too high altitudes) the Peregrinus Falcon owes its scientific name from the dark coloring of the chief pens.
These reminiscent of a dark headgear very similar to the caps that used to wear pilgrims in the Middle Ages, when they carried out very long journeys along the ways of devotion throughout Europe. It is a bird of the Falconidae family.

Il falco pellegrino ha dimensioni non notevolissime. Its wingspan does not exceed 110 cm, while its length is between 35 and 58 cm. It can reach the 320 kilometers per hour overcoming a sports car and even detaching the African cheetah. The pilgrim hawks are tendentially faithful animals, they usually look for a new partner only after the death of the previous one.

In antiquity.

The pilgrim falcon, as well as other species of hawks and also of prawns in general, is associated with the peaks of heaven and also to the stars, particularly in the sun.
This is mainly derived from the Egyptian mythology that identified in Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, the solar god par excellence. You do not have the certainty to what kind of falcon they refer to the Egyptians, nevertheless the most accredited hypothesis is that it is about the pilgrim falcon, whose dark feathers under the eyes, going to form a species of crescent, remember the Horus’s eye
Horus’s eye was used as health bearer amulet(a pendant was donated that depicted him to the sick) and protection in homes. It was a very revered God and became the emblem of the Pharaohs.
Also in other cultures it was considered an important figure that of the falcon: for the Greeks it was the messenger of Apollo. For Nordic peoples represented God Wodan, hunting deity, or the goddess Freya. For other populations of the world, from the native America to those of Polynesia, it was associated with capacity for knowledge and divination.