... compass in spring of the year following their first autumn migration or later. Bird migration Orientation Compass systems Celestial cues Magnetic compass Migratory birds Emlen funnels The experimental birds from all groups tested in the vertical magnetic field, i.e. without access...

... risoria) . Mol. Cell. Biochem.   232 , 27 - 31 . 10.1023/A:1014833030530 Berthold , P. ( 2001 ). Bird Migration: A General Survey . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Calisi , R. M. and Bentley , G. E. ( 2009 ). Lab and field experiments: are they the same animal?   Horm...

... Article: In 2009, most juvenile eagles translocated from Latvia to Germany departed earlier than native juveniles and adults, and consequently failed to learn the species' traditional eastern detour around the Mediterranean. Bird migration Orientation Satellite-tracking Translocation...

...-duration flights, but much remains to be discovered about the complexities of RS production and antioxidant protection throughout migration. Here, we use bird migration as an example to discuss how RS are produced during endurance exercise and how the complex antioxidant system can protect against cellular...

... - 599 . Berthold   P. ( 1988 ). Unruhe-aktivität bei vögeln: eine übersicht . Vogelwarte   34 , 249 - 259 . Berthold   P. ( 2001 ). Bird Migration: A General Survey . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Biebach   H. ( 1985 ). Sahara stopover in migratory flycatchers...

... the use of a magnetic compass for selecting their courses. * Author for correspondence ( johanna.gronroos@zooekol.lu.se ) 10 2 2010 © 2010. 2010 orientation bird migration sharp-tailed sandpiper Calidris acuminata Alaska Arctic breeding waders are well known...

... ) 18 6 2009 2009 bird migration fuelling decisions hormones corticosterone geomagnetic cues Most songbirds perform their migration alone during nocturnal flights often over long distances. The main fuel for migratory flights is fat, deposited at stopover sites en route...

... geomagnetic cues bird migration food intake fuel deposition Migratory flights in many songbirds are performed alone nocturnally using a combination of innate ( Beck and Wiltschko,1988 ) and external information about migratory direction( Alerstam, 1990 ; Berthold, 1996 ). The migratory journey...

... for endurance exercise, and (2) modify dietary fatty acids before storing them as fuel. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: jmweber@science.uottawa.ca ) 25 4 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 membrane phospholipids fat stores bird migration nutrition endurance...

... orientation navigation Ficedula hypoleuca Sylvia atricapilla bird migration time dependence. The aim of the present paper was to investigate how pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca and blackcaps Sylvia atricapilla use and interpret celestial cues. To collect these data, we developed...