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re: Article on the Energetics of Bird Migration

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Subject: re: Article on the Energetics of Bird Migration
From: Andrew Taylor <>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:52:15 +1000
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:25:11AM +1000, Lawrie Conole wrote:
> The wing shape and loading aspects are hardly new.  Allen Keast
> demonstrated these principles with Australian honeyeaters about 40
> years ago!

Yes but measuring in-flight energy consumption of long-distance migrants
in real-time during their  migration is definitely a  step on.
Paper is publicly available here:
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002154

Andrew

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