{"id":6389,"date":"2018-10-24T17:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:24:22","slug":"new-tool-measures-birds-complex-flight-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-tool-measures-birds-complex-flight-dynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"New tool measures birds\u2019 complex flight dynamics<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Published\u00a0October 24, 2018 17:01 EDT<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.royalsociety.org\/thePressRelease.aspx?id=17751\" target=\"_blank\">Brief<\/a> from Royal Society)<br \/>\nA portable stereo-imaging system and algorithms allowed researchers to measure three-dimensional flight trajectories and time-resolved wingbeat frequencies of freely flying birds. When applied to jackdaws and rooks flying alone and in large flocks, the resulting data suggest that flocking, unlike V-formation flight, is energetically costly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author:<\/strong> Richard Vaughan, Simon Fraser University &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:vaughan@sfu.ca\" target=\"_blank\">vaughan@sfu.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published\u00a0October 24, 2018 17:01 EDT (Brief from Royal Society) A portable stereo-imaging system and algorithms allowed researchers to measure three-dimensional flight trajectories and time-resolved wingbeat frequencies of freely flying birds. When applied to jackdaws and rooks flying alone and in large flocks, the resulting data suggest that flocking, unlike V-formation flight, is energetically costly. Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1327,3259,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-news-tip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1F3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}