Structure of the vortex wake in hovering Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1773, 2013, Pages

  Wolf, M ^a,b   Ortega Jimenez, V M ^a   Dudley, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Flight; Hovering; Hummingbird; Lift; Vortex wake

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AVIFAUNA; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; FLIGHT; VORTEX; VORTICITY; WEIGHT;

ANNA; AVES; CALYPTE ANNA; SELASPHORUS; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 84887002530     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2391     Document Type: Article

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