{"id":4727,"date":"2016-03-29T19:12:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T23:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2016-04-04T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:31:43","slug":"how-the-hummingbird-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/how-the-hummingbird-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"How the hummingbird turns<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4755\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14534381519_fdb8dd9304_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4755\" class=\"wp-image-4755\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14534381519_fdb8dd9304_z.jpg\" alt=\"An adult male Anna's Hummingbird, similar to the ones captured and used in the study. (Image credit:Pacific Southwest Region United States Fish and Wildlife Service)\" width=\"465\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14534381519_fdb8dd9304_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14534381519_fdb8dd9304_z-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An adult male Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird, similar to the ones captured and used in the study. (Image credit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4728\">Pacific Southwest Region United States Fish and Wildlife Service<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hummingbirds control their turning velocity and radius using body orientation and asymmetrical wingbeats, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Using a feeder tracking experiment researchers found the birds control their turning velocity by altering their physical orientation, and control their turning radius by beating their wings at slightly different speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers filmed six adult male Anna\u2019s hummingbirds after applying white markings to their heads, backs, and rumps to facilitate tracking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/13\/116\/20160110\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0the <em>Journal of the Royal Society Interface\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March\u00a029<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/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, Vancouver, British Columbia<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hummingbirds control their turning velocity and radius using body orientation and asymmetrical wingbeats, according to a new study. Using a feeder tracking experiment researchers found the birds control their turning velocity by altering their physical orientation, and control their turning radius by beating their wings at slightly different speeds. Researchers filmed six adult male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4755,"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":[113,114,125,2521],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biology","tag-birds","tag-british-columbia","tag-motion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14534381519_fdb8dd9304_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","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=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}