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Avian flight

This accessible reference covers all the main aspects of arial locomotion by birds including sections on the history of bird flight study, aerodynamics, fuctional morphology, evolution, kinematics, physiology, energetics and the costs of flight
eBook, English, 2005
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005
xvii, 269 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.
756902530
Print version
Electronic reproduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, (Oxford Scholarship Online), Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher), Available as searchable text in HTML format, Access restricted to subscribing institutions