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Testing an Emerging Paradigm in Migration Ecology Shows Surprising Differences in Efficiency between Flight Modes

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Estimating updraft velocity components over large spatial scales: contrasting migration strategies of golden eagles and turkey vultures

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The Newest Synthesis: Understanding the Interplay of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics

(2011) T. W. Schoener   SCIENCE

Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehicles

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Wing-beat characteristics of birds recorded with tracking radar and cine camera

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Variation in body condition of breeding Savi’s Warblers Locustella luscinioides: the reproductive stress and flight adaptation hypothesis revisited

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SOARING BEHAVIOUR AND PERFORMANCE OF SOME EAST AFRICAN BIRDS, OBSERVED FROM A MOTOR-GLIDER

(2008) C. J. Pennycuick   IBIS

THE MECHANICS OF BIRD MIGRATION

(2008) C. J. Pennycuick   IBIS

Altitude choice by night migrants in a desert area predicted by meteorological factors

(2008) B. BRUDERER et al.   IBIS

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(2008) BRUNO BRUDERER et al.   IBIS

Comparing bird and human soaring strategies

(2008) Z. Akos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Movement ecology of migration in turkey vultures

(2008) J. T. Mandel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research

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

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE