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Bird flight

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

Jan Cichocki, Marcin Warchałowski, Agnieszka Ważna, Iwona Gottfried, Anna Bator–Kocoł, Tomasz Gottfried, Adrianna Kościelska, Jacek Bojarski, Monika Pietraszko–Warchałowska, Grzegorz Gabryś

published 22 Jul 2019

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

Martin Mayer, Daniel Natusch, Shane Frank

published 16 Jul 2019

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

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

published 25 Jun 2019

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

Timothy Jones, Lauren M. Divine, Heather Renner, Susan Knowles, Kathi A. Lefebvre, Hillary K. Burgess, Charlie Wright, Julia K. Parrish

published 29 May 2019

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

Alexandra M. Anderson, Christian Friis, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, R. I. Guy Morrison, Paul A. Smith, Erica Nol

published 03 Apr 2019

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Morphospace exploration reveals divergent fitness optima between plants and pollinators

Foen Peng, Eric O. Campos, Joseph Garret Sullivan, Nathan Berry, Bo Bin Song, Thomas L. Daniel, H. D. Bradshaw Jr.

published 13 Mar 2019

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Behavioural responses of humpback whales to food-related chemical stimuli

Bertrand Bouchard, Jean-Yves Barnagaud, Marion Poupard, Hervé Glotin, Pauline Gauffier, Sara Torres Ortiz, Thomas J. Lisney, Sylvie Campagna, Marianne Rasmussen, Aurélie Célérier

published 26 Feb 2019

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

Tibor Szép, János Dobránszky, Anders Pape Møller, Gareth Dyke, Ádám Z. Lendvai

published 04 Jan 2019

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

Cody T. Ross, Bruce Winterhalder

published 12 Dec 2018

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

Peter Windes, Xiaozhou Fan, Matt Bender, Danesh K. Tafti, Rolf Müller

published 28 Nov 2018

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

Suzanne Amador Kane, Daniel Van Beveren, Roslyn Dakin

published 28 Nov 2018

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

Liam Dowling, Frances Bonier

published 26 Nov 2018

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UAS imagery reveals new survey opportunities for counting hippos

Julie Linchant, Simon Lhoest, Samuel Quevauvillers, Philippe Lejeune, Cédric Vermeulen, Jean Semeki Ngabinzeke, Basile Luse Belanganayi, Willy Delvingt, Philippe Bouché

published 14 Nov 2018

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