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A New Approach to Animal Flight Mechanics

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Power Requirements for Horizontal Flight in the Pigeon Columba Livia

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A Wind-Tunnel Study of Gliding Flight in the Pigeon Columba Livia

1968 • 212 citations

Aerodynamics of Gliding Flight in A Falcon and Other Birds

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The Wake of a Kestrel (Falco Tinnunculus) in Gliding Flight

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Bounding and undulating flight in birds

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The Metabolic Cost of Flight in Unrestrained Birds

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A Cineradiographic Analysis of Bird Flight: The Wishbone in Starlings Is a Spring

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The functional anatomy of the shoulder in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

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Neuromuscular control and kinematics of intermittent flight in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

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Introduction to the Scaling of Aerial Locomotion

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Adaptive Radiation in Insects and Plants: Time and Opportunity

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Aerodynamics of gliding flight in a harris’ hawk, Parabuteo Unicinctus

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Gliding flight in the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius): An electromyographic study

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Analysis of the aerodynamic performance of birds during bounding flight

1984 • 28 citations

Developments in vertebrate flight : climbing and gliding of mammals and reptiles, and the flapping flight of birds

1982 • 28 citations

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The morphological basis of folded‐wing posture in the American Kesrel, Falco sparverius

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Electrical activity of the pectoral muscles during gliding and flapping flight in the herring gull (Larus argentatus)

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