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Sweeping flight and soaring by albatrosses

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ALBATROSSES can fly over the sea for a long time without flapping their wings. Raleigh1 worked out a suitable method, known as dynamic soaring, to account for this and Idrac2 showed that this was the method used by the birds.

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WILSON, J. Sweeping flight and soaring by albatrosses. Nature 257, 307–308 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257307a0

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