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How young cuckoos find their winter grounds

Posted on 18 March 2017 by Richard Nissen

Please find this interesting link to important work on Cuckoos done by Kasper Thorup and his team in Denmark. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0168940 They were able to tag and therefore track fledgling cuckoos.  This work is very important as the major question for … Continue reading →

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Animal Navigation Model

Posted on 12 February 2017 by Richard Nissen

Antonio Nafarrate, one of our associate editors has sent his latest thinking: I am very interested in how so much of what he presents here fits with other pieces in our puzzle to understand how Animal Navigation might work Richard … Continue reading →

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Our co-editor Antonio Nafarrate has recently written these remarks 

Posted on 15 December 2016 by Richard Nissen

Following the 2016 Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) Conference on “Animal Navigation”, Dr. Painter claims that after some 50 years of work, the Magnetic “mechanism is not fully understood”. In my judgment, it will never be, because there is no … Continue reading →

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Mathematical analysis of the homing flights of pigeons based on GPS tracks

Posted on 6 December 2016 by Richard Nissen

Ingo Schiffner At the RIN 11 Animal Navigation Conference Ingo Schiffner, presented a paper: Mathematical Analysis of Pigeon Tracks, characterisation of the underlying Navigational Process and now he has produced another paper covering Mathematical analysis of the homing fights of pigeons … Continue reading →

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Cuckoo Migration

Posted on 26 September 2016 by Richard Nissen

Cuckoo Migration is one of the great mysteries and to date there is still no agreement on how Cuckoos find their way to the Congo for the winter starting from different locations in Europe.   The team at Copenhagen University … Continue reading →

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Long-Distance Nocturnal Navigator

Posted on 15 May 2016 by Richard Nissen

Warrant11 2016 Here is a fascinating paper about The Australian Bogong Moth Agrotis infusa: which is the most amazing  Long-Distance Nocturnal Navigator.  As they navigate at night their feat is perhaps even more amazing than the migration of the Monarch butterfly in the USA. Richard Nissen editor Warrant E, Frost B, Green … Continue reading →

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Annual Conference of Dowsers on Animal Navigation

Posted on 15 December 2015 by Richard Nissen

In September 2015 I was asked to give a workshop at the Annual Conference of Dowsers on Animal Navigation. Of course I talked about how animals, including birds, navigate and all the outstanding questions that remain on how they do … Continue reading →

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