Directional compass preference for landing in water birds

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hart, Vlastimil ^a   Malkemper, Erich Pascal ^b   Kušta, Tomáš ^a   Begall, Sabine ^b   Nováková, Petra ^a   Hanzal, Vladimír ^a   Pleskač, Lukáš ^a   Ježek, Miloš ^a   Policht, Richard ^a   Husinec, Václav ^a   Červený, Jaroslav ^a   Burda, Hynek ^a,b  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird flight; Flight control; Magnetic orientation; Magnetoreception; Sun compass; Water birds

Indexed keywords

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES;

EID: 84879812060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-38     Document Type: Article

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