Birds invest wingbeats to keep a steady head and reap the ultimate benefits of flying together

• Lucy A. Taylor ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lucy.taylor@zoo.ox.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4443-9456

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• Graham K. Taylor,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Ben Lambert,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4274-4158

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• James A. Walker,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3062-1567

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• Dora Biro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Steven J. Portugal

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

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