Bird flight has always intrigued mankind!
- The first comprehensive publication on bird flight since Pennycuick’s seminal 1989 work.
- A new overview of this dynamic field is long overdue Incorporates insights from biology, physics and mathematics, and synthesises a broadly dispersed literature.
- Challenges well-established ideas and offers novel, and sometimes controversial, explanations for some of the gaps in current understanding.
- Text is clearly illustrated and equation free. Separate boxes contain formulae and more complex details
John en Hanneke Videler 