The true costs of bird flight: From the laboratory to the field

Project Information

FLIGHT

Grant agreement ID: 715874

DOI 10.3030/715874

Project closed

EC signature date 22 March 2017

Start date 1 April 2017

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 996 042,50

EU contribution € 1 996 042,50

Coordinated by

SWANSEA UNIVERSITY
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Pelagic seabirds reduce risk by flying into the eye of the storm

Author(s): Emmanouil Lempidakis; Emily L. C. Shepard; Andrew N. Ross; Sakiko Matsumoto; Shiho Koyama; Ichiro Takeuchi; Ken Yoda
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencese USA, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212925119

Turbulence causes kinematic and behavioural adjustments in a flapping flier

Author(s): Emmanouil Lempidakis, Andrew N. Ross, Michael Quetting, Krishnamoorthy Krishnan, Baptiste Garde, Martin Wikelski, Emily L. C. Shepard
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2024, ISSN 1742-5662
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0591

Thermal soaring in tropicbirds suggests that diverse seabirds may use this strategy to reduce flight costs

Author(s): Baptiste Garde, Adam Fell, Krishnamoorthy Krishnan, Carl G. Jones, Richard Gunner, Vikash Tatayah, Nik C. Cole, Emmanouil Lempidakis, Emily L. C. Shepard
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2023, ISSN 0171-8630
Publisher: Inter-Research Science Publishing
DOI: 10.3354/meps14410

Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima and responses to extremes

Author(s): Elham Nourani; Kamran Safi; Sophie de Grissac; David J. Anderson; Nik C. Cole; Adam Fell; David Grémillet; Emmanouil Lempidakis; Miriam Lerma; Jennifer L. McKee; Lorien Pichegru; Pascal Provost; Niels C. Rattenborg; Peter G. Ryan; Carlos D. Santos; Stefan Schoombie; Vikash Tatayah; Henri Weimerskirch; Martin Wikelski; Emily L. C. Shepard.
Published in: Current Biology, 2022, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.02.490292

Wake respirometry allows breath-by-breath assessment of ventilation and CO2 production in unrestrained animals

Author(s): Kayleigh A.R. Rose; Rory P. Wilson; Claudia Ramenda; Hermina Robotka; Martin Wikelski; Emily L.C. Shepard
Published in: iScience, 2022, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104878

Ecological inference using data from accelerometers needs careful protocols

Author(s): Baptiste Garde, Rory P. Wilson, Adam Fell, Nik Cole, Vikash Tatayah, Mark D. Holton, Kayleigh A. R. Rose, Richard S. Metcalfe, Hermina Robotka, Martin Wikelski, Fred Tremblay, Shannon Whelan, Kyle H. Elliott, Emily L. C. Shepard
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13804

How often should dead-reckoned animal movement paths be corrected for drift?

Author(s): Richard M. Gunner, Mark D. Holton, David M. Scantlebury, Phil Hopkins, Emily L. C. Shepard, Adam J. Fell, Baptiste Garde, Flavio Quintana, Agustina Gómez-Laich, Ken Yoda, Takashi Yamamoto, Holly English, Sam Ferreira, Danny Govender, Pauli Viljoen, Angela Bruns, O. Louis van Schalkwyk, Nik C. Cole, Vikash Tatayah, Luca Börger, James Redcliffe, Stephen H. Bell, Nikki J. Marks, Nigel C. Bennett, M
Published in: Animal Biotelemetry, 2021, ISSN 2050-3385
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s40317-021-00265-9

Airflow modelling predicts seabird breeding habitat across islands

Author(s): Emmanouil Lempidakis, Andrew N. Ross, Luca Börger, Emily L. C. Shepard
Published in: Ecography, 2021, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05733

Wind prevents cliff-breeding birds from accessing nests through loss of flight control

Author(s): Emily Shepard, Emma-Louise Cole, Andrew Neate, Emmanouil Lempidakis, Andrew Ross
Published in: eLife, Issue 8, 2019, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.43842

Estimates for energy expenditure in free‐living animals using acceleration proxies; a reappraisal

Author(s): Rory P Wilson, Luca Börger, Mark D. Holton, D. Michael Scantlebury, Agustina Gómez‐Laich, Flavio Quintana, Frank Rosell, Patricia M. Graf, Hannah Williams, Richard Gunner, Lloyd Hopkins, Nikki Marks, Nathan R. Geraldi, Carlos M. Duarte, Rebecca Scott, Michael S. Strano, Hermina Robotka, Christophe Eizaguirre, Andreas Fahlman, Emily L. C. Shepard
Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology, 2019, ISSN 0021-8790
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13040

Habitat use of urban-nesting lesser black-backed gulls during the breeding season

Author(s): Anouk Spelt, Cara Williamson, Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Emily Shepard, Peter Rock, Shane Windsor
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46890-6

Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research

Author(s): Hannah J. Williams, Lucy A. Taylor, Simon Benhamou, Allert I. Bijleveld, Thomas A. Clay, Sophie Grissac, Urška Demšar, Holly M. English, Novella Franconi, Agustina Gómez‐Laich, Rachael C. Griffiths, William P. Kay, Juan Manuel Morales, Jonathan R. Potts, Katharine F. Rogerson, Christian Rutz, Anouk Spelt, Alice M. Trevail, Rory P. Wilson, Luca Börger
Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology, Issue 89/1, 2020, Page(s) 186-206, ISSN 0021-8790
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13094

Effect of harness design for tag attachment on the flight performance of five soaring species

Author(s): Arianna Longarini; Olivier Duriez; Emily Shepard; Kamran Safi; Martin Wikelski; Martina Scacco
Published in: Movement Ecology, 2023, ISSN 2051-3933
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-023-00408-y

The role of wingbeat frequency and amplitude in flight power

Author(s): Krishnamoorthy Krishnan; Baptiste Garde; Ashley Bennison; Nik C. Cole; Emma-L. Cole; Jamie Darby; Kyle H. Elliott; Adam Fell; Agustina Gómez-Laich; Sophie de Grissac; Mark Jessopp; Emmanouil Lempidakis; Yuichi Mizutani; Aurélien Prudor; Michael Quetting; Flavio Quintana; Hermina Robotka; Alexandre Roulin; Peter G. Ryan; Kim Schalcher; Stefan Schoombie; Vikash Tatayah; Fred Tremblay; Henri Weimer
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society interface, 2022, ISSN 1742-5662
Publisher: Royal Scoety
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0168

Estimating fine-scale changes in turbulence using the movements of a flapping flier

Author(s): Emmanouil Lempidakis; Andrew N. Ross; Michael Quetting; Baptiste Garde; Martin Wikelski; Emily L. C. Shepard
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2022, ISSN 1742-5662
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0577

An “orientation sphere” visualization for examining animal head movements

Author(s): Rory P. Wilson; Hannah J. Williams; Mark D. Holton; Agustina di Virgilio; Luca Börger; Jonathan R. Potts; Richard Gunner; Alex Arkwright; Andreas Fahlman; Nigel C. Bennett; Abdulaziz N. Alagaili; Nik C. Cole; Nik C. Cole; Carlos M. Duarte; David M. Scantlebury
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, 2020, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6197

Fine-scale changes in speed and altitude suggest protean movements in homing pigeon flights

Author(s): Baptiste Garde, Rory P. Wilson, Emmanouil Lempidakis, Luca Börger, Steven J. Portugal, Anders Hedenström, Giacomo Dell'Omo, Michael Quetting, Martin Wikelski, Emily L. C. Shepard
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 8/5, 2021, Page(s) 210130, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210130

Physical limits of flight performance in the heaviest soaring bird

Author(s): H. J. Williams, E. L. C. Shepard, Mark D. Holton, P. A. E. Alarcón, R. P. Wilson, and S. A. Lambertucci
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2020, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907360117

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Fine-scale changes in flight effort revealed by animal-borne loggers

Author(s): Baptiste Garde
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: Swansea University
DOI: 10.23889/suthesis.59434