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Kyu Min Huh

@kyubird.bsky.social

Oxford DPhil since May 2026 🐣: “Ontogeny and variability of take-off flight performance” (in small birds) |Currently postdoc on how baby owls and falcons develop flight 🦅

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Kyu Min Huh @kyubird.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

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Natural take-off flight performance is repeatable and scalable in mixed flock tit species

Abstract. Modelling small bird flights is challenging, as small birds (<20 g) rarely engage in steady-state flights assumed by traditional flight models

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Kyu Min Huh @kyubird.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A follow-up post on my first DPhil paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface! We found that natural flight in small birds (< 25 g) is repeatable within individual (*basis for selection*) and scalable by wing loading. Small bird flight = behavioural trait & model for non-steady-state bursts!

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Kyu Min Huh @kyubird.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thanks, Steve! tldr: great tits are faster at the start, but blue tits eventually catch up in the air.

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