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Flight speed and time of day heavily influence rainforest canopy wildlife counts from drone-mounted thermal camera surveys
The payload size and commercial availability of thermal infrared cameras mounted on drones has initiated a new wave in the potential for...
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Energy supply during nocturnal endurance flight of migrant birds: effect of energy stores and flight behaviour
BackgroundMigrating birds fly non-stop for hours or even for days. They rely mainly on fat as fuel complemented by a certain amount of protein....
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Flight behaviours and energy savings in adult and juvenile house martins (Delichon urbicum) foraging near their breeding colony
AbstractForaging is an extremely important behaviour for birds, especially during the breeding season, when they have to carry the cost of incubation...
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First transcriptomic insight into the working muscles of racing pigeons during a competition flight
BackgroundThe currently known homing pigeon is a result of a sharp one-sided selection for flight characteristics focused on speed, endurance, and...
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Palaeoatmosphere facilitates a gliding transition to powered flight in the Eocene bat, Onychonycteris finneyi
The evolutionary transition to powered flight remains controversial in bats, the only flying mammals. We applied aerodynamic modeling to reconstruct...
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Effect of harness design for tag attachment on the flight performance of five soaring species
BackgroundBio-logging devices play a fundamental and indispensable role in movement ecology studies, particularly in the wild. However, researchers...
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RoboEM: automated 3D flight tracing for synaptic-resolution connectomics
Map** neuronal networks from three-dimensional electron microscopy (3D-EM) data still poses substantial reconstruction challenges, in particular...
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The Concept of Allostasis and Autonomic Regulation in Space Flight
AbstractThe review presents literature sources confirming the key aspects of the theory of allostasis and its relationship with the theory of...
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Differential Flight Capacity of Spissistilus festinus (Hemiptera: Membracidae) by Sex and Age
The three-cornered alfalfa hopper (TCAH), also known as Spissistilus festinus (Hemiptera: Membracidae), infests legumes and poses a threat to the...
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Flight altitudes and flight activities of adult Red Kites (Milvus milvus) in the breeding area as determined by GPS telemetry
The Red Kite has come to the forefront of general consciousness in recent decades. A major contributing factor has been repeated collisions of these...
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From the eye to the wing: neural circuits for transforming optic flow into motor output in avian flight
Avian flight is guided by optic flow—the movement across the retina of images of surfaces and edges in the environment due to self-motion. In all...
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Flight heights obtained from GPS versus altimeters influence estimates of collision risk with offshore wind turbines in Lesser Black-backed Gulls Larus fuscus
The risk posed by offshore wind farms to seabirds through collisions with turbine blades is greatly influenced by species-specific flight behaviour....
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Relationships of wingtip shape, song-flight and mating success in male black-headed buntings Emberiza melanocephala
Wing design in birds is the result of different and potentially opposing natural selection pressures, such as those related to migration, predator...
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Neuroendocrinal and molecular basis of flight performance in locusts
Insect flight is a complex physiological process that involves sensory and neuroendocrinal control, efficient energy metabolism, rhythmic muscle...
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Sex specificity of dispersal behaviour and flight morphology varies among tree hollow beetle species
BackgroundFlight performance and dispersal behaviour can differ between sexes, resulting in sex-biased dispersal. The primary sex ratio of...
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Visual learning in tethered bees modifies flight orientation and is impaired by epinastine
Visual-orientation learning of a tethered flying bee was investigated using a flight simulator and a novel protocol in which orientation preference...
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A low-cost wind tunnel for bird flight experiments
A blower-type wind tunnel for physiological bird flight experiments has been developed, constructed and evaluated. Since the birds to be investigated...
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Aerial photogrammetry of seabirds from digital aerial video images using relative change in size to estimate flight height
Calculating the height at which birds fly over the sea is a challenging task, but remains important to assessing collision risk in proposed offshore...
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Rapid flight feathers moult and fat stores in the Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago in the early stage of autumn migration
We analysed primary and secondary feather moult and fat reserves in 539 Common Snipes captured in the middle Pripyat River Valley, an important...
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Flight Performance of the Potato Psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli) is Negatively Affected by ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ Infection
Understanding vector dispersal capacity is key to assessing the risk of spread of vector borne pathogens. For flying vectors, flight performance is...
