In Nature today
describe instrumenting juvenile northern bald ibis raised in captivity to measure their effort as they learn to fly in a V formation. When they get it right, the wing strokes are staggered in time so each bird, except the leader, gets a lift off the trailing vortex of the bird ahead.
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