Migrating Songbirds Recalibrate Their Magnetic Compass Daily from Twilight Cues

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5669, 2004, Pages 405-408

  Cochran, William W ^a,d   Mouritsen, Henrik ^b   Wikelski, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); GEOMAGNETISM; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SUN;

FREE-FLYING SONGBIRDS; MAGNETIC EQUATOR; NIGHT MIGRATORY SONGBIRDS;

BIODIVERSITY;

MAGNETIC FIELD; MIGRATION; SONGBIRD; TWILIGHT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENT; FLYING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MEMORY; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CALIBRATION; CUES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; MAGNETICS; ORIENTATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SONGBIRDS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CATHARUS; PASSERI; TURDIDAE;

EID: 1942520246     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095844     Document Type: Article

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