Movie 3.

slow motion video played at 10% of real speed, showing the motion capture output of Kestrel 1 during a single wind hover, demonstrating the fixation of the head markers with respect to the 3-dimensional space. Note: not all frames are showed in this video sample.

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