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Movie 2.

Real speed video of Kestrel 1 performing a flight test, showing the output geometry from the motion capture system and indicating what a wind hover is defined as.

Steady as they hover: kinematics of kestrel wing and tail morphing during hovering flights

Mario Martinez Groves-Raines, George Yi, Matthew Penn, Simon Watkins, Shane Windsor, and Abdulghani Mohamed

Journal of Experimental Biology 2024. 227:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.247305