It is a golden age for animal movement studies and so an opportune time to assess priorities
for future work. We assembled 40 experts to identify key questions in this field, focussing on …

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 …

Shearwaters and petrels (hereafter petrels) are highly adapted seabirds that occur across all
the world's oceans. Petrels are a threatened seabird group comprising 124 species. They …

Migratory marine animals exploit resources in different oceanic regions at different life
stages, but how they navigate to specific oceanic areas is poorly understood [1–3]. A …

Over 25 years ago the first satellite tracking studies of sea turtles were published. The
technology and attachment methods have now come of age with long-term tracks over a …

There is now compelling evidence that many organisms have movement patterns that can
be described as Lévy walks, or Lévy flights. Lévy movement patterns have been identified in …

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 …

In migratory animals for whom post-natal care is limited, it is essential that there are inherited
mechanisms whereby an individual can navigate—first, to the terminus of their migration …

Cognition, defined as the processes concerned with the acquisition, retention and use of
information, underlies animals' abilities to navigate their local surroundings, embark on long …

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