ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2017
Route simulations, compass mechanisms and long-distance migration flights in birds.
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- Eagle eyed or bird brained?Eye (London, England) · 2023Review
- Gauge-and-compass migration: inherited magnetic headings and signposts can adapt to changing geomagnetic landscapes.Movement ecology · 2023Article
- The Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) as a model to understand vagrancy and its potential for the evolution of new migration routes.Movement ecology · 2022Review
- Predicting performance of naïve migratory animals, from many wrongs to self-correction.Communications biology · 2022Article
- The importance of time of day for magnetic body alignment in songbirds.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- Fusion of wildlife tracking and satellite geomagnetic data for the study of animal migration.Movement ecology · 2021Article
- Autumn migratory orientation and route choice in early and late dunlins Calidris alpina captured at a stopover site in Alaska.Biology open · 2021Article
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- Feasibility of sun and magnetic compass mechanisms in avian long-distance migration.Movement ecology · 2018Review
- Ten grams and 13,000 km on the wing - route choice in willow warblersMovement ecology · 2018Article
- Timing avian long-distance migration: from internal clock mechanisms to global flights.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
Bird migration has fascinated humans for centuries and routes crossing the globe are now starting to be revealed by advanced tracking technology. A central question is what compass mechanism, celestial or geomagnetic, is activated during these long flights. Different approaches based on the geometry of flight routes across the globe and route simulations based on predictions from compass mechanisms with or without including the effect of winds have been used to try to answer this question with varying results. A major focus has been use of orthodromic (great circle) and loxodromic (rhumbline) routes using celestial information, while geomagnetic information has been proposed for both a magnetic loxodromic route and a magnetoclinic route. Here, we review previous results and evaluate if one or several alternative compass mechanisms can explain migration routes in birds. We found that most cases could be explained by magnetoclinic routes (up to 73% of the cases), while the sun compas s could explain only 50%. Both magnetic and geographic loxodromes could explain <25% of the routes. The magnetoclinic route functioned across latitudes (1°S-74°N), while the sun compass only worked in the high Arctic (61-69°N). We discuss the results with respect to orientation challenges and availability of orientation cues.
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