Measuring leg thrust forces in the common starling

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 435-439

  Bonser, Richard H C ^a   Rayner, Jeremy M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Common starling; Flight; Force perch; Landing; Leg; Predation; Repeatability; Scaling; Take off; Thrust

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001322581     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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