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Abstract
Year: 2015 PMID: 26207624 PMCID: PMC4514750 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133341
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Fig 8Lovebirds improve visual flight control by coordinating super-fast gaze shifts with the end of their downstroke.
(A) Top view schematic of a typical recording that shows that the wings occlude the lateral visual field at the end of the downstroke. The lovebird’s azimuthal visual field is approximated from ophthalmologic measurements at the visual equator of Senegal parrots [57]. (B) For demonstrative purposes a lovebird was filmed from the side during a turning on a dime maneuver with the side panels of the arena removed (this video sequence is not part of the data analysis). (C) Most saccades were initiated at 75% of the downstroke (see Fig 3B), when the wings occlude more than half of the lateral visual field.