Animals move in their daily lives in search for food, to avoid predators, to find mates, and to
transport themselves between areas of importance for their survival. To enable energy …

Good conditions for migration may promote offshore flights in nocturnal autumn migrants at
the northern border of the Mediterranean Sea, whereas unfavourable conditions may induce …

Migratory birds are known to be able to navigate—to determine their position on the globe
and the direction toward their distant goal—even if they cannot perceive any information …

Studies on avian navigation began at the end of the 19th century with testing various
hypotheses, followed by large-scale displacement experiments to assess the capacity of the …

The orientation system of the Savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) is typical of
nocturnal migrant passerine birds. It is based on a system of interacting compass senses …

Recent experimental studies (since ca.\985) on the ontogeny of orientation mechanisms in
migratory birds are reviewed. The processes and interactions are synthesized into a …

The findings on the navigational mechanisms of homing pigeons and the available data on
those of wild birds, in particular migrants, are compared. There are important parallels in the …

The complex mechanisms of orientation and navigation in birds develop through the
interaction of experience with the relevant stimuli and the underlying genetic substrate …

Around 1970 it was well known that homing pigeons and other birds are able to return to
their home site when passively displaced to unfamiliar areas several hundreds of kilometres …

Displacement studies have shown that long-distance, night-migrating songbirds are able to
perform true navigation from their first spring migration onwards [1, 2]. True navigation …