Movie 2
Three-camera stereoscopic video of a Pied Flycatcher from the molt group performing an upward-directed escape flight maneuver. The video was recorded at 200 frames per second and replayed at 10 frames per second, and is thus slowed down 20 times.
A songbird compensates for wing molt during escape flights by reducing the molt gap and increasing angle of attack
Journal of Experimental Biology 2019. 222:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.195396