Wingbeat frequency
- Flight energetics, caste dimorphism and scaling properties in the bumblebee, Bombus impatiens
Summary: Comparing worker and queen bumblebees reveals how body size impacts flight energetics and muscle metabolism.
- Homing pigeons (Columba livia) modulate wingbeat characteristics as a function of route familiarity
Highlighted Article: Onboard accelerometry reveals that pigeons' flight characteristics undergo gradual changes over the course of learning a route, and thus provide potential biomechanical signatures of birds' landscape familiarity.