Filmed with a Phantom Flex 4K camera at 1000, 2000, and 3000 frames per second. Lit with Cineo remote phosphor lights and Hive Plasma lights.
This video was made as part of a article on the science of hummingbirds for National Geographic Magazine. Read the story here:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mag...
It was based on research done by the Clark lab at US Riverside, the Dudley lab at UC Berkeley, and the Altshuler lab at the University of British Columbia.
http://animalaeroacoustics.ucr.edu/
https://berkeleyflightlab.org/
http://altshuler.zoology.ubc.ca/
I would also like to thank Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Katie Johnson, Sean Wilcox, David Rankin and Nicholas Donnelly for additional help with making the video.
http://ornithopterus.com/
http://mightypixel.net/
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