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Researchers recently showed that migratory reed warblers depend on an internal geomagnetic map to guide them on their long-distance journeys. But it wasn't clear how the birds were solving the ...

Birds have an impressive ability to navigate. They can fly long distances, to places that they may never have visited before, sometimes returning home after months away. Though there has been a lot of ...

Biologists have identified, for the first time, that mature reed warblers are able to detect the declination from magnetic north, and use the scale of the declination or change from true north to ...

This material is taken from Chapter 6 - Wilderness Travel from The Backpackers Field Manual by Rick Curtis. For more details on this exciting book check out The Backpacker's Field Manual Page. This ...

Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Birds have an impressive ability to navigate. They can fly long distances, to places that they may never have visited before, ...