Lift generation by the avian tail

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1475, 2001, Pages 1443-1448

  Maybury, W J ^a   Rayner, J M V ^a   Couldrick, L B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Bird; Body tail interaction; Flight; Lift; Tail

Indexed keywords

BIRD; MORPHOLOGY; TAIL FEATHER;

AIRFLOW; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIGHT; FLYING; FORELIMB; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; TAIL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0034925633     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1666     Document Type: Article

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