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How birds find their way = avian orientation and navigation /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How birds find their way/ by Helmut Satz.
Reminder of title:	avian orientation and navigation /
Author:	Satz, H.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2025.,
Description:	xxi, 120 p. :ill. (chiefly col.), digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Bird navigation. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92181-0
ISBN:	9783031921810

How birds find their way = avian orientation and navigation /
Satz, H.

How birds find their wayavian orientation and navigation /[electronic resource] :by Helmut Satz. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xxi, 120 p. :ill. (chiefly col.), digital ;24 cm.

Preface -- 1 Prelude The Return of AX658 -- 2 True Navigation -- 3 Unconventional Signs -- 4 The Flight of the Dove -- 5 Avian Magnetoreception -- 6 Migration -- 7 Life on the Wing -- 8 The Geography of the Species -- 9 Epilogue.

This book describes our current understanding of the navigation of birds, their methods, capabilities, and achievements. Our knowledge of this field has progressed immensely in the last fifty years due to the availability of miniaturized tracking and positioning devices, which now allow us to know when and where a specific bird is located and where it is flying. The book is written for a general readership and requires no more of the reader than a true interest in the topic. The text provides an accessible overview of the relevant geographic and geophysical basics (latitudes and longitudes, geomagnetism) and of the neural faculties that allow birds to identify these features. The author surveys a variety of striking avian achievements, ranging from trans-ocean and pole-to-pole flights to circumnavigations of the earth. Readers will also learn how the required knowledge is provided and passed on to future generations, through instinct as well as through experience. Our understanding of such information transfer is much today deeper than it was fifty years ago. Nevertheless, many open questions remain. How an albatross leaving the coast of Brazil can find the way to its nest on a rock off the coast of New Zealand-this is a question still waiting to be answered. Thus, a further purpose of the book is to stimulate additional interest and new research into the fascinating and challenging world of avian navigation.

ISBN: 9783031921810

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-92181-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

668948
Bird navigation.

LC Class. No.: QL698.8

Dewey Class. No.: 598

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