Redstarts, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, can orient in a true-zero magnetic field

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1311-1324

  Mouritsen, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD; ORIENTATION; REDSTART;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; SETOPHAGA;

EID: 0032077225     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0696     Document Type: Article

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