ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2025
Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar: new insights from high-resolution weather data.
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- Weather Conditions Are Systematically Associated With Long-Range Nonroutine Movements in a Large Scavenger.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar: new insights from high-resolution weather data.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Differential Flight Responses of Sympatric Raptor Species to Weather Conditions and Extreme Temperature Events.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
Soaring flight allows birds to reduce the metabolic cost of flight by harnessing energy from the atmosphere. The study of soaring behaviour has been significantly constrained by the low resolution of available atmospheric data, limiting our ability to accurately describe the conditions enabling soaring and its adaptability to different updraught types. For instance, while the use of thermals and orographic lifting updraughts are well described in the literature, the role of gravity waves has remained largely unexplored. Advancements in high-resolution atmospheric modelling, with hourly output available at the kilometre-scale grid spacing, offer new opportunities to investigate the flexibility of soaring flight in response to complex atmospheric dynamics, including gravity waves. In this study, we used a combination of a high-resolution atmospheric analysis and high-resolution global positioning system tracking data to characterize the updraught sources used by golden eagles,
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