THE MECHANICS OF BIRD MIGRATION

By C. Pennycuick. 2008

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Ecology

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• GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales (2008, background): “5 m/s (27 km/h) and Vmr (maximum range velocity) about 14 m/s (50 km/h) for the Manx Shearwater (Pennycuick 1969), so we suggest that birds are flying in the”