| migration by soaring or flapping: numerical atmospheric simulations reveal that turbulence kinetic energy dictates bee-eater flight mode. | aerial migrants commonly face atmospheric dynamics that may affect their movement and behaviour. specifically, bird flight mode has been suggested to depend on convective updraught availability and tailwind assistance. however, this has not been tested thus far since both bird tracks and meteorological conditions are difficult to measure in detail throughout extended migratory flyways. here, we applied, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive numerical atmospheric simulations by mean of the re ... | 2011 | 21471116 |