Flight paths of seabirds soaring over the ocean surface enable measurement of fine-scale wind speed and direction

Using High-Resolution GPS Tracking Data of Bird Flight for Meteorological Observations

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Assimilation of the seabird and ship drift data in the north-eastern sea of Japan into an operational ocean nowcast/forecast system

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Marine atmospheric boundary layer and low-level cloud responses to the Kuroshio Extension front in the early summer of 2012: three-vessel simultaneous observations and numerical simulations

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Analysing the intermittent flapping flight of a Manx Shearwater, Puffinus puffinus, and its sporadic use of a wave-meandering wing-sailing flight strategy

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Estimates of the Southern Ocean general circulation improved by animal-borne instruments

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Experimental verification of dynamic soaring in albatrosses

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Foraging spots of streaked shearwaters in relation to ocean surface currents as identified using their drift movements

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Flying at No Mechanical Energy Cost: Disclosing the Secret of Wandering Albatrosses

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Toward the Quantification of a Conceptual Framework for Movement Ecology Using Circular Statistical Modeling

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Changes in Wind Pattern Alter Albatross Distribution and Life-History Traits

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Temporal tuning of homeward flights in seabirds

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Impact of nearshore wind stress curl on coastal circulation and primary productivity in the Peru upwelling system

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Pros and cons of using seabirds as ecological indicators

(2009) JM Durant et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Wind field and sex constrain the flight speeds of central-place foraging albatrosses

(2009) Ewan D. Wakefield et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Correlating seabird movements with ocean winds: linking satellite telemetry with ocean scatterometry

(2009) Josh Adams et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Scaling of Soaring Seabirds and Implications for Flight Abilities of Giant Pterosaurs

(2009) Katsufumi Sato et al.   PLoS One

Can Ethograms Be Automatically Generated Using Body Acceleration Data from Free-Ranging Birds?

(2009) Kentaro Q. Sakamoto et al.   PLoS One

Flight speed of seabirds in relation to wind speed and direction

(2008) LARRY B. SPEAR et al.   IBIS

Southern Ocean frontal structure and sea-ice formation rates revealed by elephant seals

(2008) J.-B. Charrassin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Influence of ocean winds on the pelagic ecosystem in upwelling regions

(2008) R. R. Rykaczewski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA