Moult, flight performance and wingbeat kinematics during take-off in European starlings Sturnus vulgaris

By E. Williams, J. Swaddle. 2003

90 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d68bdb74be3ad3553e242f1afad53762e77062c3

Citations in the corpus

• Resistance of melanized feathers to bacterial degradation: is it really so black and white? (2008, unknown): “Feather wear can influence flight performance (Swaddle and Witter 1997, Williams and Swaddle 2003 ) and thermoregulatory ability (Booth et al. 1993), and thus melanization could reduce costs associated with feather wear.”
• Evidence that plumage bacteria influence feather coloration and body condition of eastern bluebirds Sialia sialis (2009, unknown): “FDB appear to be cosmopolitan, occurring on a wide range of bird species (Burtt and Ichida 1999, Whitaker et al. 2005), and feather damage influences a range of traits that impact fitness (Booth et al. 1993, Swaddle and Witter 1997, Ferns and Lang 2003, Williams and Swaddle 2003 ).”