Raptor wing morphing with flight speed

• Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface
• Main Authors: Cheney, Jorn A., Stevenson, Jonathan, Durston, Nicholas E, Maeda, Masateru, Song, Jialei, Megson-Smith, David, Windsor, Shane P, Usherwood, James R., Bomphrey, Richard J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Camber; Accipiter gentilis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1983/35ff8f32-4055-4049-ba9c-53af439e7bdb; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/35ff8f32-4055-4049-ba9c-53af439e7bdb; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0349; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/282339970/Raptor_PDF.pdf

In gliding flight, birds morph their wings and tails to control their flight trajectory and speed. Using high-resolution videogrammetry, we reconstructed accurate and detailed three-dimensional geometries of gliding flights for three raptors (barn owl, Tyto alba; tawny owl, Strix aluco, and goshawk,...