Avian Wing Planform Images and Data for Flight Style Analysis

Benton Walters provides outline images and dataset files for the analysis described in Walters et al. 2026, including R and MATLAB code for reproducing analyses. The 34.6 MB ZIP archive also contains the original unpublished bird dataset from Rayner 1988, reconstructed from the author's notes. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04 30.

Use Cases

• Reproducing morphological analyses based on the provided R and MATLAB code.
• Studying wing planform optimization for different flight styles based on the outline images.
• Analyzing historical avian morphology data based on the reconstructed Rayner 1988 dataset.

Strengths

• Includes reproducible analysis code in R and MATLAB.
• Contains a reconstructed historical dataset (Rayner 1988) not previously published.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Benton Walters, via figshare.

Collection Method

Reconstructed from original notes by Rayner (1988), with analysis code by Walters et al. (2026).

Time Range

Data originally from 1988, with analysis published in 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 07:03:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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