{"id":3644,"date":"2014-12-08T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2014-12-08T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:47:05","slug":"birds-watch-where-theyre-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/birds-watch-where-theyre-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds watch where they\u2019re going<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3647\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pngbase6446363c1a2185cd1a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3647\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3647\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pngbase6446363c1a2185cd1a.png\" alt=\"A perched Anna\u2019s hummingbird (Calypte anna). (Image courtesy of Benny Goller)\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A perched Anna\u2019s hummingbird (Calypte anna). (Image courtesy of Benny Goller)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Flying birds rely on movements in the surrounding environment to control their position in space, a new study has found. The authors filmed hummingbirds hovering in front of a projection screen and examined the birds\u2019 response to moving bars and spiral patterns compared to static images.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found flying birds are sensitive to movements in their visual field and change how they fly in response to those movements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1415975111\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>December 8<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Douglas L Altshuler, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying birds rely on movements in the surrounding environment to control their position in space, a new study has found. The authors filmed hummingbirds hovering in front of a projection screen and examined the birds\u2019 response to moving bars and spiral patterns compared to static images. The researchers found flying birds are sensitive to movements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,114,125],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-birds","tag-british-columbia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pngbase6446363c1a2185cd1a.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-WM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}