People with access to Nature can access the report in this week's
edition
Bird flight: Fly with a little flap from your friends
Florian T. Muijres & Michael H. Dickinson
Nature Volume: 505, Pages: 295-296
The key is the way the trailing birds synchronise their wing flaps to
match the vortices produced by the bird in front. It boils down to
wing control and body position and that might make things harder for
"smaller, faster-flapping birds"
On 17/01/2014, at 7:56 AM, Stephen Ambrose wrote:
Scientists Reveal the Truth of Bird V-Formations
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/scientists-reveal-truth-of-b
ird-v-formations-619878.html
Stephen Ambrose
Ryde, NSW
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