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Nocturnally migrating songbirds drift when they can and compensate when they must

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The shortest possible migratory route for birds is not always the best route to travel. Substantial research effort has established that birds in captivity are capable of orienting toward the direction of an intended goal, but efforts to examine how free-living birds use navigational information under conditions that potentially make direct flight toward that goal inefficient have been limited in spatiotemporal scales and in the number of individuals observed because of logistical and technol...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1038/srep21249

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Oxford college:
Somerville College
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Springer Nature Publisher's website
Journal:
Scientific Reports Journal website
Volume:
6
Issue:
1
Article number:
21249
Publication date:
2016-02-16
Acceptance date:
2016-01-20
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EISSN:
2045-2322
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1120374
Local pid:
pubs:1120374
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2020-07-19

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