Avian magnetic compass: Fast adjustment to intensities outside the normal functional window

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 300-304

  Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^a   Stapput, Katrin ^a   Thalau, Peter ^a   Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MIGRATION ROUTE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FOWL; GEOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PLACE PREFERENCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; RETINA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; EUROPE; MAGNETICS; ORIENTATION; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANKFURT AM MAIN; GERMANY; HESSE;

AVES;

EID: 33744830588     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0102-5     Document Type: Article

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