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| Title |
Directional compass preference for landing in water birds
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-10-38 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Vlastimil Hart, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Tomáš Kušta, Sabine Begall, Petra Nováková, Vladimír Hanzal, Lukáš Pleskač, Miloš Ježek, Richard Policht, Václav Husinec, Jaroslav Červený, Hynek Burda |
| Abstract |
Landing flight in birds is demanding on visual control of velocity, distance to target, and slope of descent. Birds flying in flocks must also keep a common course of landing in order to avoid collisions. Whereas the wind direction may provide a cue for landing, the nature of the landing direction indicator under windless conditions has been unknown. We recorded and analysed landing directions of 3,338 flocks in 14 species of water birds in eight countries. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 9% |
| Japan | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |
| Belgium | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 7 | 64% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 82% |
| Scientists | 2 | 18% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 54 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Austria | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 53 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 8 | 15% |
| Unknown | 17 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 25 | 46% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 7% |
| Engineering | 3 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 14 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2021.
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#1,816,199
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Outputs from Frontiers in Zoology
#105
of 702 outputs
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#14,864
of 207,202 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Zoology
#4
of 16 outputs
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