flight Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Bird identification guide for weather radars

By Nadja Weisshaupt|2021-01-11T10:18:58+00:0018 Jan 2021|bird movements, citizen science, flight, Migration, monitoring, remote sensing, weather|

How citizen science enlightens ornithological weather radar research

Don’t move. Winter is coming.

By Ron Efrat|2020-10-09T15:12:57+00:0026 Aug 2019|annual cycle, flight, gps tags, Migration, movements, short-distance migration, soaring birds|

What do Dalmatian Pelicans do when it gets cold?

Soaring over Scotland

By Jente Ottenburghs|2020-10-11T19:41:30+00:0030 May 2019|birds of prey, flight, gps tags, habitat selection, News, raptors|

Golden Eagles prefer particular slopes to gain altitude

Harris’s Hawk flying for science (and treats)

By Tessa van Walsum|2020-10-12T15:39:06+00:004 Mar 2019|acceleration, birds of prey, flight, News|

Using accelerometry to calculate energetic costs of flying Harris’s Hawks

Outsiders: Size, but not Shape, Matters

By Christina Ieronymidou|2017-11-20T07:30:49+00:0020 Nov 2017|bird movements, flight, migrant, soaring birds, vultures|

Contrasting flapping counterparts, wing shape and migratory habits are unrelated in soaring birds

Towards a chicken’s breast

By Christina Ieronymidou|2020-09-22T13:20:54+00:0018 Sep 2017|evolution, flight, palaeontology|

How an important skeletomuscular correlate of flapping flight evolved

Short tails in a severe winter

By Christina Ieronymidou|2017-07-10T07:30:36+00:0010 Jul 2017|flight, selection, survival, winter|

A once-in-a-century severe winter revealed selection for short-tailed Pacific Swallows

Flight

By Steve Dudley|2017-01-09T07:00:00+00:009 Jan 2017|feathers, flight, foraging, Migration, molt, moult, tracking, weather, wind|

A look at the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, examining how flying animals respond to the challenges – and opportunities – that come with moving in a medium that is, itself, on the move.