Why does diurnal mass change not appear to affect the flight performance of alarmed birds?
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Diurnal mass gains of 5.3% in great tits have been shown to have no significant effect on escape flight performance.
“Diurnal mass gains of 5.3% in great tits have also been shown to have no significant effect on escape flight performance (Macleod, 2006).”
From The elaborate plumage in peacocks is not such a drag (2014) · cites this paper as Macleod, 2006
Although added mass must affect induced power requirements, the size of that effect has little meaningful functional relevance given the high variability in individual take-off performance.
“Together, these findings suggest that although added mass must affect the induced power requirements, the magnitude of the effect has little meaningful functional relevance (given the high variability in individual take-off performance per se; Table 2, Fig. 1A) (Macleod, 2006).”
From The elaborate plumage in peacocks is not such a drag (2014) · cites this paper as Macleod, 2006
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- Authors
- Macleod, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Macleod, Ross
- ORCID
- Macleod, Ross
- Venue
- Animal Behaviour
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-03
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 523-530
- ISSN
- 0003-3472 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1993665437
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 1.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Animal Behaviour (publishedVersion)
- ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Oxford
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Avian ecology and behavior
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Keywords
- flight performance, Parus major, predator avoidance, classical mechanics, work-energy theorem, flight speed, body mass, small birds
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