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camelpardia In reply to seionara [2020-04-02 09:29:08 +0000 UTC]

Ooops, yeah, that's my fault. Also this whole shebang is littered with spelling errors and grammatical inconsistencies, honestly I'd need an editor for these things since you become blind to your own mistakes after staring at it for so long.

Mallards are really interesting and probably one of the hardest birds to categorize, nether entirely round or pointed wings, nor completely adapted for their aquatic or terrestrial lifestyle. They feel like a species in transition, or perhaps one that has found a precise and precarious balance.

I've actually never seen them do a vertical take-off, but that might be 'cause I live in such a cold land. It's been really hard to find good reliable information about this topic and I've mostly had to rely on an old Swedish book "Fåglarnas Ekologi (the bird's ecology) by  J. Ekman, and A. Lundberg".

I've found no other literature that uses this type of categorization and it was a bit of an issue when I did my thesis on the subject, I wanted to use this model but had to go with the more standard "four wing types" model.

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seionara In reply to camelpardia [2020-04-02 11:43:40 +0000 UTC]

Yea, I know that feeling.

That does make sense.

I didn't know either until a year or two ago when I was kayaking in a river in France. I think it was trying to hide before deciding to flee and the river was quite overgrown so it didn't have the luxury of an open water or much airspace. From what I can remember it flew up at least 3 meters for maybe 1-0.5 meters of forward movement, so at an angle of about 70-80°, before getting clear of the shrubbery and flying away more "normally".

Most of the others I saw didn't have a running start but didn't rise as steeply so I'm guessing it's something they can do if they need to but generally try to avoid.

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camelpardia In reply to Sweetheartbetta1997 [2020-02-25 08:36:11 +0000 UTC]

Some are definitively in the "perching while foraging, strikes prey on the ground category", I'd say most Horned Owls (Bubo) are in that category. Barn-Owls (Tyto) and Eared-Owls (Asio ) spend more time soaring than the Horned Owls, but I'm uncertain if that would be enough to land them in the "Foraging by aerial patrol or soaring, often from a perch"  category.

The thing with owls are that they're very well adapted to a vast array of different habitats which makes making sweeping statements on their wing type kind of moot.

Any owl in particular that you'd like analyzed?

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Sweetheartbetta1997 In reply to camelpardia [2020-02-25 10:11:47 +0000 UTC]

Well, my favorite bird is a snowy owl

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camelpardia In reply to Sweetheartbetta1997 [2020-02-25 12:33:59 +0000 UTC]

A good choice!

The Snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) would most likely be in the "perching while foraging, strikes prey on the ground category", they have the classic "sit and wait" predator style.

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Sweetheartbetta1997 In reply to camelpardia [2020-02-25 13:32:16 +0000 UTC]

I like snowy owls because of their beautiful coloration though and they make good ninjas. 

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camelpardia In reply to Karlalymy [2018-05-31 18:01:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, and you're welcome!
Oh, hm, let's see, it's a bit hard to explain and I've always sucked at explaining words, but I'll give it a try. Also, English is not my native language...
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camelpardia In reply to mimose-stock [2018-03-16 21:52:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
I try my best  ^w^

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camelpardia In reply to Shanglon [2017-12-08 16:31:59 +0000 UTC]

Then I can tease you with the fact that I'm actually working on a fourth part in the series,it'll be about the different flight styles used by birds and how that relates to their wing structure.

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Shanglon In reply to camelpardia [2017-12-08 17:00:58 +0000 UTC]

*_*
I can't wait!

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camelpardia In reply to anredera [2017-10-09 16:51:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!!

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anredera In reply to camelpardia [2017-10-10 18:17:26 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome   

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camelpardia In reply to OfStrangerHearts [2017-05-12 20:09:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, I put my heart and soul into it!
My pleasure :3

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camelpardia In reply to Rahula87 [2017-01-16 15:23:09 +0000 UTC]

Once more, thank you!
It warms my soul to hear that you find them useful and interesting to read

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Rahula87 In reply to camelpardia [2017-01-16 16:28:35 +0000 UTC]

You are welcome ^_^

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camelpardia In reply to Regolith247 [2016-12-03 11:37:00 +0000 UTC]

Oh! Thank you!

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camelpardia In reply to FreyAldernari [2016-12-02 13:13:20 +0000 UTC]

It took me a long while to finally muster up the patience to create it

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camelpardia In reply to Sheepgirl145 [2016-11-30 14:59:30 +0000 UTC]

No problem

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Sheepgirl145 In reply to camelpardia [2016-11-30 17:35:05 +0000 UTC]

:3

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camelpardia In reply to RobHadford [2016-11-30 14:59:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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camelpardia In reply to MitternachtAngel [2016-11-30 15:00:01 +0000 UTC]

It was my pleasure ^w^

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camelpardia In reply to jb-XV [2016-11-30 11:08:36 +0000 UTC]

Welcome ;3
Finding more in depth information on bird wings is quite difficult, if you need links or literature recommendations just give me a hoot.

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jb-XV In reply to camelpardia [2016-11-30 18:17:06 +0000 UTC]

"give me a hoot." was that an intentional bird pun?

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camelpardia In reply to jb-XV [2016-11-30 18:37:03 +0000 UTC]

Oh gosh, I didn't think about that ^.^;

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camelpardia In reply to InkGink [2016-11-29 21:41:14 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like 'em

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InkGink In reply to camelpardia [2016-11-29 21:44:09 +0000 UTC]

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