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Bird flight

Avian Wing Proportions and Flight Styles: First Step towards Predicting the Flight Modes of Mesozoic Birds

Xia Wang, Alistair J. McGowan, Gareth J. Dyke

Energy Beyond Food: Foraging Theory Informs Time Spent in Thermals by a Large Soaring Bird

Emily L. C. Shepard, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Diego Vallmitjana, Rory P. Wilson

Landscape Movements of Migratory Birds and Bats Reveal an Expanded Scale of Stopover

Philip D. Taylor, Stuart A. Mackenzie, [ ... ], Christopher G. Guglielmo

Fossil Plotopterid Seabirds from the Eo-Oligocene of the Olympic Peninsula (Washington State, USA): Descriptions and Functional Morphology

Gareth J. Dyke, Xia Wang, Michael B. Habib

Misleading Population Estimates: Biases and Consistency of Visual Surveys and Matrix Modelling in the Endangered Bearded Vulture

Antoni Margalida, Daniel Oro, [ ... ], José A. Donázar

Different Means to the Same End: Long-Distance Migrant Seabirds from Two Colonies Differ in Behaviour, Despite Common Wintering Grounds

Paulo Catry, Maria P. Dias, Richard A. Phillips, José P. Granadeiro

The Evolutionary Pathway to Obligate Scavenging in Gyps Vultures

Brian J. Dermody, Colby J. Tanner, Andrew L. Jackson

Assessing Arboreal Adaptations of Bird Antecedents: Testing the Ecological Setting of the Origin of the Avian Flight Stroke

T. Alexander Dececchi, Hans C. E. Larsson

Some Causes of the Variable Shape of Flocks of Birds

Charlotte K. Hemelrijk, Hanno Hildenbrandt

Homing Pigeons Only Navigate in Air with Intact Environmental Odours: A Test of the Olfactory Activation Hypothesis with GPS Data Loggers

Anna Gagliardo, Paolo Ioalè, Caterina Filannino, Martin Wikelski

Evidence of the Trade-Off between Starvation and Predation Risks in Ducks

Cédric Zimmer, Mathieu Boos, [ ... ], Jean-Patrice Robin

Migratory Pathways and Connectivity in Asian Houbara Bustards: Evidence from 15 Years of Satellite Tracking

Olivier Combreau, Samuel Riou, [ ... ], Frédéric Launay

Social Interactions of Juvenile Brown Boobies at Sea as Observed with Animal-Borne Video Cameras

Ken Yoda, Miku Murakoshi, Kota Tsutsui, Hiroyoshi Kohno

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