Lift production in the hovering hummingbird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1674, 2009, Pages 3747-3752

  Warrick, Douglas R ^a   Tobalske, Bret W ^b   Powers, Donald R ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Flight; Hummingbirds

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFLOW; BIRD; FLIGHT; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; KINEMATICS; MOVEMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; FLYING; FORELIMB; HUMMINGBIRD; KINEMATICS; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SUPINE POSITION; VORTEX MOTION; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; SPHINGIDAE; TROCHILIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; WING;

EID: 70449728141     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1003     Document Type: Article

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