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Bird flight

Year-round distribution, activity patterns and habitat use of a poorly studied pelagic seabird, the fluttering shearwater Puffinus gavia

Martin Berg, Jannie F. Linnebjerg, [ ... ], Matt J. Rayner

Frequent or scarce? Damage to flight–enabling body parts in bats (Chiroptera)

Jan Cichocki, Marcin Warchałowski, [ ... ], Grzegorz Gabryś

Water body type and group size affect the flight initiation distance of European waterbirds

Martin Mayer, Daniel Natusch, Shane Frank

Canonical description of wing kinematics and dynamics for a straight flying insectivorous bat (Hipposideros pratti)

Susheel Sekhar, Peter Windes, Xiaozhou Fan, Danesh K. Tafti

Unusual mortality of Tufted puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) in the eastern Bering Sea

Timothy Jones, Lauren M. Divine, [ ... ], Julia K. Parrish

Consistent declines in wing lengths of Calidridine sandpipers suggest a rapid morphometric response to environmental change

Alexandra M. Anderson, Christian Friis, [ ... ], Erica Nol

Morphospace exploration reveals divergent fitness optima between plants and pollinators

Foen Peng, Eric O. Campos, [ ... ], H. D. Bradshaw Jr.

Behavioural responses of humpback whales to food-related chemical stimuli

Bertrand Bouchard, Jean-Yves Barnagaud, [ ... ], Aurélie Célérier

Older birds have better feathers: A longitudinal study on the long-distance migratory Sand Martin, Riparia riparia

Tibor Szép, János Dobránszky, [ ... ], Ádám Z. Lendvai

Evidence for encounter-conditional, area-restricted search in a preliminary study of Colombian blowgun hunters

Cody T. Ross, Bruce Winterhalder

A computational investigation of lift generation and power expenditure of Pratt’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros pratti) in forward flight

Peter Windes, Xiaozhou Fan, [ ... ], Rolf Müller

Biomechanics of the peafowl’s crest reveals frequencies tuned to social displays

Suzanne Amador Kane, Daniel Van Beveren, Roslyn Dakin

Should I stay, or should I go: Modeling optimal flight initiation distance in nesting birds

Liam Dowling, Frances Bonier

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