Starling Flock Networks Manage Uncertainty in Consensus at Low Cost
Figure 2
Dependence of the optimum number of neighbors (m*) and the peak value of robustness per neighbor on the number of birds in the flock (N).
Different snapshots from the same flock have different numbers of birds due to occlusions. Results for each snapshot are shown rather than averaged across flocks since we can take each snapshot to be an independent observation (see Fig. S2). Under each plot are the bird positions (rotated to fit inside a rectangular bounding box) for two snapshots corresponding to the smallest and largest flocks studied.