Migratory birds have a number of navigational tools available for finding their way during
long-distance migration. For passerines, these are known to include a magnetic compass …

For many years, orientation in migratory birds has primarily been studied in the laboratory.
Although a laboratory-based setting enables greater control over environmental cues, the …

The question of how migrating birds find their way to winter quarters and back has
fascinated humans since the beginning of scientific research into avian biology. Migrating …

A reader of almost any more or less recent review on avian orientation (Wiltschko and
Wiltschko 1999b, Muheim et al. 2006a, Fraser 2010) is most likely to learn that migrating …

Birds use different compass mechanisms based on celestial (stars, sun, skylight polarization
pattern) and geomagnetic cues for orientation. Yet, much remains to be understood how …

The requirements of the orientation system of naïve long‐distance night migrants were
analysed by comparing data on Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria, Marsh Warbler Acrocephalus …

Birds migrating between distant locations regularly perform long continuous flights lasting
several days. What compass mechanism they use is still a mystery. Here, we use a novel …

Migration routes of birds throw light on orientation performance at different geographic
scales, over distances ranging from a few kilometres to more than 104 km. Detailed …

Every year in autumn, myriads of migrating birds leave their breeding areas and start the
long flight towards their wintering areas, which often are thousands of kilometres away …

Research into the orientation behaviour of captive migrant birds has been carried out over
several decades (eg Emlen 1967a, 1967b, Wiltschko & Wiltschko 1972, Gwinner & …