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MR. HEADLEY'S suggestion (NATURE for July 27) that gulls sometimes steer by dropping one foot, is, it seems to me, hardly tenable, for so small a rudder acting on so thin a medium as air would be of little effect. And although I have seen many gulls under very varying circumstance, I have never seen them even appearing to direct their course in such a manner.
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LUCAS, F. Bird's Steering Methods. Nature 48, 414 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048414a0
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