Migratory blackcaps can use their magnetic compass at 5 degrees inclination, but are completely random at 0 degrees inclination

It is known that night-migratory songbirds use a magnetic compass measuring the magnetic inclination angle, i.e. the angle between the Earth’s surface and the magnetic field lines, but how do such birds orient at the magnetic equator? A previous study reported that birds are completely randomly orie...

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Autores principales: Schwarze, Susanne, Steenken, Friederike, Thiele, Nadine, Kobylkov, Dmitry, Lefeldt, Nele, Dreyer, David, Schneider, Nils-Lasse, Mouritsen, Henrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5036058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27667569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep33805

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5036058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27667569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep33805

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