Upwash exploitation and downwash avoidance by flap phasing in ibis formation flight

2014/01/14 by Steven J. Portugal, Tatjana Y. Hubel, Johannes Fritz +6 · 8 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Engineering · Environmental Science · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Avian ecology and behavior #Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms

paper · doi:10.1038/nature12939

openalex publication_date 2014/01/14 · crossref created 2014/01/14 · crossref issued 2014/01/15 · crossref published 2014/01/15 · crossref published-online 2014/01/15 · crossref published-print 2014/01/16 · crossref deposited 2022/04/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/07/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Citations

• Kinematics of ducklings swimming in formation: Consequences of position
• Phasing of dragonfly wings can improve aerodynamic efficiency by removing swirl

Cited by

• Sex- and social context-dependent differences in mice fine head movement during social interactions
• Mechanoethology: The Physical Mechanisms of Behavior
• Primary Moult of Eurasian Spoonbills Platalea l. leucorodia in the Wadden Sea in Relation to Age, Breeding and Migration
• Fly with a little flap from your friends
• The four-flipper swimming method of plesiosaurs enabled efficient and effective locomotion
• Intermittent collective motion in sheep results from alternating the role of leader and follower
• Load estimation in unsteady flows from sparse pressure measurements: Application of transition networks to experimental data
• Bird flight [wikipedia]
• Herd [wikipedia]