Although it has been known for almost half a century that migratory birds can detect the
direction of the Earth's magnetic field, the primary sensory mechanism behind this …

Bird migrations are impressive behavioral phenomena, representing complex
spatiotemporal strategies to balance costs of living while maximizing fitness. The field of bird …

For centuries, humans have been fascinated by how migratory animals find their way over
thousands of kilometres. Here, I review the mechanisms used in animal orientation and …

Although it is known that birds can return to their breeding grounds with exceptional
precision, it has remained a mystery how they know when and where to stop migrating …

Although the hippocampus is structurally quite different among reptiles, birds, and mammals,
its function in spatial memory is said to be highly conserved. This is surprising, given that …

Migratory birds can navigate over tens of thousands of kilometers with an accuracy
unobtainable for human navigators. To do so, they use their brains. In this review, we …

Magnetic compass orientation in night-migratory songbirds is embedded in the visual
system and seems to be based on a light-dependent radical pair mechanism. Recent …

The longitude problem (determining east-west position) is a classical problem in human sea
navigation. Prior to the use of GPS satellites, extraordinarily accurate clocks measuring the …

Displacement experiments have demonstrated that experienced migratory birds
translocated thousands of kilometers away from their migratory corridor can orient toward …

The magnetic compass sense of migratory birds is thought to rely on magnetically sensitive
radical pairs formed photochemically in cryptochrome proteins in the retina. An important …