ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2022
The role of wingbeat frequency and amplitude in flight power.
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- A minimal wake-vortex model explains formation flight of flapping birds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Multi-Sensor Assessment of Pigeon Flight Behavior: Role of Biomechanical and Landscape Characteristics.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Wild bats hunt insects faster under lit conditions by integrating acoustic and visual information.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Pigeons in a flock go cheap: a re-evaluation of the energetics of flying in cluster flocks.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Flight activity and effort of breeding pied flycatchers in the wild, revealed with accelerometers and machine learning.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Turbulence causes kinematic and behavioural adjustments in a flapping flier.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- On the role of tail in stability and energetic cost of bird flapping flight.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The role of wingbeat frequency and amplitude in flight power.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Review
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Abstract
Body-mounted accelerometers provide a new prospect for estimating power use in flying birds, as the signal varies with the two major kinematic determinants of aerodynamic power: wingbeat frequency and amplitude. Yet wingbeat frequency is sometimes used as a proxy for power output in isolation. There is, therefore, a need to understand which kinematic parameter birds vary and whether this is predicted by flight mode (e.g. accelerating, ascending/descending flight), speed or morphology. We investigate this using high-frequency acceleration data from (i) 14 species flying in the wild, (ii) two species flying in controlled conditions in a wind tunnel and (iii) a review of experimental and field studies. While wingbeat frequency and amplitude were positively correlated,
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