Migratory birds use head scans to detect the direction of the earth's magnetic field

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 1946-1949

  Mouritsen, Henrik ^a   Feenders, Gesa ^a   Liedvogel, Miriam ^a   Kropp, Wiebke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLYING; GEOGRAPHY; HEAD MOVEMENT; MAGNETISM; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MAGNETICS; ORIENTATION; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 7944234302     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.10.025     Document Type: Article

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