Inner vane fringes of barn owl feathers reconsidered: Morphometric data and functional aspects

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Bachmann, Thomas ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^b   Tropea, Cameron ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barbs; Barn owl; Feather; Flow control; Fringes; Silent flight

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BARN OWL; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FEATHER; FLIGHT; FRICTION; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MORPHOMETRICS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OWL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEATHERS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NOISE; PHOTOGRAPHY; STRIGIFORMES;

MAMMALIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 84862313758     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2012.01504.x     Document Type: Article

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