ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2018
Simultaneous measurements of three-dimensional trajectories and wingbeat frequencies of birds in the field.
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- Perception of motion salience shapes the emergence of collective motions.Nature communications · 2024Article
- A robotic falcon induces similar collective escape responses in different bird species.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Stochastic modelling of bird flocks: accounting for the cohesiveness of collective motion.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Behavioural plasticity and the transition to order in jackdaw flocks.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Collective turns in jackdaw flocks: kinematics and information transfer.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
- When flocking is costly: reduced cluster-flock density over long-duration flight in pigeons.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2019Article
- Local interactions and their group-level consequences in flocking jackdaws.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Compound-V formations in shorebird flocks.eLife · 2019Article
- Birds invest wingbeats to keep a steady head and reap the ultimate benefits of flying together.PLoS biology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Tracking the movements of birds in three dimensions is integral to a wide range of problems in animal ecology, behaviour and cognition. Multi-camera stereo-imaging has been used to track the three-dimensional (3D) motion of birds in dense flocks, but precise localization of birds remains a challenge due to imaging resolution in the depth direction and optical occlusion. This paper introduces a portable stereo-imaging system with improved accuracy and a simple stereo-matching algorithm that can resolve optical occlusion. This system allows us to decouple body and wing motion, and thus measure not only velocities and accelerations but also wingbeat frequencies along the 3D trajectories of birds. We demonstrate these new methods by analysing six flocking events consisting of 50 to 360 jackdaws (
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