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Soaring Flight

Soaring Flight is a specialized mode of avian locomotion within the broader category of bird flight, characterized by the sustained gliding and circling behavior that exploits rising air currents to maintain or gain altitude with minimal flapping.

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Obligate vertebrate scavengers must be large soaring fliers

Graeme D. Ruxton, David J. Houston · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2004 · 286 citations

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Migration by soaring or flapping flight in birds: the relative importance of energy cost and speed

Anders Hedenström · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 1993 · 262 citations

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Minimum shear wind strength required for dynamic soaring of albatrosses

Gottfried Sachs · Ibis · 2004 · 209 citations · Full text

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Aerodynamics of Gliding Flight in A Falcon and Other Birds

Vance A. Tucker, G. Christian Parrott · Journal of Experimental Biology · 1970 · 208 citations

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Fifteen Testable Predictions about Bird Flight

C. J. Pennycuick · Oikos · 1978 · 194 citations

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Authors

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  1. OD
    Olivier Duriez

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    10 publications · 640 citations

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  2. GS
    Gottfried Sachs

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

    10 publications · 554 citations

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  3. MW
    Martin Wikelski

    Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany

    10 publications · 438 citations

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  4. WB
    Willem Bouten

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    9 publications · 566 citations

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  5. JS
    Judy Shamoun‐Baranes

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    9 publications · 576 citations

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Institutions

239

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    17 h-index

    30 publications

    2K citations

  2. Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive

    Montpellier, France

    11 h-index

    15 publications

    1.3K citations

  3. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    10 h-index

    25 publications

    1.5K citations

  4. Université de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    905 citations

  5. University of Konstanz

    Konstanz, Germany

    10 h-index

    24 publications

    900 citations

  6. École Pratique des Hautes Études

    Paris, France

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    527 citations

  7. West Virginia University

    Morgantown, United States

    8 h-index

    16 publications

    1K citations

  8. Swansea University

    Swansea, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    19 publications

    1.3K citations

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  1. PLoS ONE

    12 publications · 802 citations

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  2. Journal of Experimental Biology

    10 publications · 827 citations

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  3. Journal of The Royal Society Interface

    8 publications · 452 citations

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  4. Journal of Avian Biology

    8 publications · 489 citations

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  5. Ibis

    6 publications · 547 citations

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