Biologists have identified, for the first time, that mature reed warblers are able to detect the declination from magnetic north, and use the scale of the declination or change from true north to ...

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 ...

How does a magnetic compass work? Well, it’s all down to basic physics and human ingenuity. The key component of a standard baseplate compass is its magnetized needle, which is allowed to spin freely ...

Although we rarely think about it now, the greatest scientific challenge of the 17th and 18th centuries was longitude -- determining one's east-west location -- and this conundrum was particularly ...

Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Birds have an impressive ability to navigate. They can fly long distances, to places that they may never have visited before, ...

It might sound like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie, but the world's magnetic northern pole has changed. The magnetic north pole is the point that compasses point to as north and is ...

This material is taken from Chapter 6 - Wilderness Travel from The Backpackers Field Manual by Rick Curtis. For more details on this exciting book check out The Backpacker's Field Manual Page. This ...

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 ...