
Fig. 2. Metabolic power (Pmet) of two starlings during wind tunnel flight carrying a respirometry mask measured from the rates of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production [bird 15,
, solid line Pmet=(2.03±12.6)V1+(0.0013±0.0005)V3+(10.10±1.87); bird 19,
, broken line Pmet=(59.0±27.7)V1+(0.0020±0.0006)V3+(4.07±3.42)] (means ± S.E.M., N=24 for bird 15 and 21 for bird 19), where V is flight speed.