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The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds

Flying over the open sea is energetically costly for terrestrial birds. Despite this, over-water journeys of many birds, sometimes hundreds of kilometres long, are uncovered by bio-logging technology. To understand how these birds afford their flights over the open sea, we investigated the role of a...

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Autores principales: Nourani, Elham, Bohrer, Gil, Becciu, Paolo, Bierregaard, Richard O., Duriez, Olivier, Figuerola, Jordi, Gangoso, Laura, Giokas, Sinos, Higuchi, Hiroyoshi, Kassara, Christina, Kulikova, Olga, Lecomte, Nicolas, Monti, Flavio, Pokrovsky, Ivan, Sforzi, Andrea, Therrien, Jean-François, Tsiopelas, Nikos, Vansteelant, Wouter M. G., Viana, Duarte S., Yamaguchi, Noriyuki M., Wikelski, Martin, Safi, Kamran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8424339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34493076
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1603