Excess baggage for birds: inappropriate placement of tags on gannets changes flight patterns.

Devices attached to flying birds can hugely enhance our understanding of their behavioural ecology for periods when they cannot be observed directly. For this, scientists routinely attach units to either birds' backs or their tails. However, inappropriate payload distribution is critical in air...

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Main Authors: Sylvie P Vandenabeele, Edward Grundy, Michael I Friswell, Adam Grogan, Stephen C Votier, Rory P Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3966804?pdf=render