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Table 2 Mean wingbeat rates for escape flights of Pileated Woodpeckers over the first four wingbeats, the second four wingbeats, and the overall mean, combining both phases of flight

From: Video analysis of the escape flight of Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus: does the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis persist in continental North America?

 

mean wingbeat rate (beats s -1 )

 

Wingbeats

Wingbeats

Overall

 

1–4

5–8

mean

PIWO flight 1

7.1

-

3.9

PIWO flight 2

6.7

4.4

5.0

PIWO flight 3

8.6

4.0

6.7

PIWO flight 4

8.0

5.7

6.0

Luneau video

8.6

8.6

8.6

  1. The underlined results represent rates that are comparable or equivalent to the woodpecker described in Fitzpatrick et al [1]. Calculations based on data presented in Table 1.