Sentences with phrase «compass migrating birds»

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Even resident birds that do not migrate in the spring and autumn have a magnetic sense and navigate using their internal magnetic compass.

The idea that migrating birds navigate across continents and oceans with the help of an internal compass had been suggested a century earlier by a Russian zoologist, but attempts to prove it had failed.

Bird expert Henrik Mouritsen says night - migrating songbirds find their way northward using a combination of enhanced night vision and an internal compass that can sense and create a visual map of the invisible magnetic field surrounding the earth.