Flying animals need to accurately detect, identify and track fast-moving objects and these behavioral requirements are likely to strongly select for abilities to resolve visual detail in time. However, evidence of highly elevated temporal acuity relative to non-flying animals has so far been confined to insects while it has been missing in birds. With behavioral experiments on three wild passerine species, blue tits, collared and pied flycatchers, we demonstrate temporal acuities of vision far exceeding predictions based on the sizes and metabolic rates of these birds. This implies a history of strong natural selection on temporal resolution. These birds can resolve alternating light-dark cycles at up to 145 Hz (average: 129, 127 and 137, r...
Time cannot be directly perceived; instead, its flow is inferred from the influx of sensory informat...
Swallows are a unique group of songbirds because they are active-pursuit predators that execute all ...
Time cannot be directly perceived; instead, its flow is inferred from the influx of sensory informat...
Flying animals need to accurately detect, identify and track fast-moving objects and these behaviora...
While color vision and spatial resolution have been studied in many bird species, less is known abou...
Birds, and especially raptors, are highly visual animals. Some of them have the highest spatial reso...
Although flight is regarded as a key behavior of birds this review argues that the perceptual demand...
<p>Diurnal flying animals such as birds depend primarily on vision to coordinate their flight path d...
Since the birth of visual ecology, comparative studies on how birds see their world have been limite...
<div><p>Diurnal flying animals such as birds depend primarily on vision to coordinate their flight p...
Predators and prey are locked in a sensory arms race to detect each other as early as possible and t...
AbstractBirds are generally thought to have excellent vision with high spatial resolution. However, ...
Birds are generally thought to have excellent vision with high spatial resolution. However, spatial ...
<p>The flight paths of two blue bottle flies (<i>Calliphora vomitoria</i>) sampled from high-speed v...
Diurnal raptors (birds of the orders Accipitriformes and Falconiformes), renowned for their extraord...
Time cannot be directly perceived; instead, its flow is inferred from the influx of sensory informat...
Swallows are a unique group of songbirds because they are active-pursuit predators that execute all ...
Time cannot be directly perceived; instead, its flow is inferred from the influx of sensory informat...
Flying animals need to accurately detect, identify and track fast-moving objects and these behaviora...
While color vision and spatial resolution have been studied in many bird species, less is known abou...
Birds, and especially raptors, are highly visual animals. Some of them have the highest spatial reso...
Although flight is regarded as a key behavior of birds this review argues that the perceptual demand...
<p>Diurnal flying animals such as birds depend primarily on vision to coordinate their flight path d...
Since the birth of visual ecology, comparative studies on how birds see their world have been limite...
<div><p>Diurnal flying animals such as birds depend primarily on vision to coordinate their flight p...
Predators and prey are locked in a sensory arms race to detect each other as early as possible and t...
AbstractBirds are generally thought to have excellent vision with high spatial resolution. However, ...
Birds are generally thought to have excellent vision with high spatial resolution. However, spatial ...
<p>The flight paths of two blue bottle flies (<i>Calliphora vomitoria</i>) sampled from high-speed v...
Diurnal raptors (birds of the orders Accipitriformes and Falconiformes), renowned for their extraord...
Time cannot be directly perceived; instead, its flow is inferred from the influx of sensory informat...
Swallows are a unique group of songbirds because they are active-pursuit predators that execute all ...
Time cannot be directly perceived; instead, its flow is inferred from the influx of sensory informat...