Migratory birds are known for their ability to traverse thousands of kilometres to reach their breeding or wintering grounds. Research found that these birds, in this case, Eurasian reed warblers ...

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 don’t carry smartphones under their wings. When they migrate, GPS isn’t telling them exactly when to turn left and right, or when they’ve “arrived” at their final destination. Instead, they ...

Eurasian reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) used in the study. Even if blown off course by storms, migratory birds are able to realign their course if they've already performed one migration in ...

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Dmitry Kishkinev received funding from Leverhulme Trust and Russian Science Foundation. Every year, billions of songbirds migrate thousands of miles between Europe and Africa – and then repeat that ...