Cat Swinsky’s Research

SICB 2021

The following information was presented as part of a poster at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) 2021. It is not the most recent version of the data.

(Don’t) Shake a Tail Feather: Function of American Goldfinch Tails During Slow Flight 

Videos

Video 1. Female American Goldfinch flying around feeder at 250fps.

Video 2. Female American Goldfinch landing at 1000fps.

Video 3. Male American Goldfinch in slow flight with tracking at 250fps

Video 4. Graph of 3D volume from American goldfinch in slow flight from previous video.

Supplemental Figures

S1. Tail area of male and female American Goldfinches are not significantly different.

S2. Tail kinematics of spread angle (A) and AoA (B) do not vary significantly between species.

S3. American Goldfinch tail area is not different between the presence and absence of competitors.