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Orientation and Navigation in migratory Lepidoptera

The Role of Magnetic and Celestial Cues in Orientation and Navigation of Red Underwing (Catocala nupta), a European Migratory Moth

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type: Research article
status: in preparation

Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant (2025)

Read more – bioRxiv

type: Research article
status: under review in a journal

Orientation tests and long-term movement phenology establish the red admiral Vanessa atalanta as an applicable model for navigation research in migratory butterflies (2023)

Read more – bioRxiv

type: Research article
status: under review in a journal

Orientation mechanisms in migratory bids

Migratory birds are able to choose the appropriate migratory direction under dim yellow narrowband light (2023)

Read more – Proceedings of Royal Society B

type: Research article
status: published

Early version/preprint: see here https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.13.523666v2

Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific (2023)

Read more – Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

type: Research article
status: published

Oscillating magnetic field does not disrupt orientation in the presence of stellar cues in an avian migrant (2023)

Read more – Journal of Ornithology

type: Research article
status: published

Ontogeny of the star compass in birds: pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) can establish the star compass in spring (2021)

Read more – Journal of Experimental Biology

type: Research article
status: published

Magnetic compass of garden warblers is not affected by oscillating magnetic fields applied to their eyes (2020)

Read more – Scientific Reports

type: Research article
status: published

Very weak oscillating magnetic field disrupts the magnetic compass of songbird migrants (2017)

Read more – Journal of Royal Society Interface
status: published

Further evidence of a time-independent stellar compass in a night-migrating songbird (2017)

Read more – Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

type: Research article
status: published

Magnetic orientation of garden warblers (Sylvia borin) under 1.4 MHz radiofrequency magnetic field (2014)

Read more – Journal of Royal Society Interface

type: Research article
status: published

Multi-cue integration and compass calibration in migratory animals

Access to the sky near the horizon and stars does not play a crucial role in compass calibration of European songbird migrants (2022)

Read more – Journal of Experimental Biology

type: Research article
status: published

A hierarchy of compass systems in migratory birds (2020) – review

Read more – Biological Communications

type: Review
status: published

P.S. Our experimental setup for virtual magnetic displacements and compass calibration experiments is on the cover of this issue.

Early evening activity of migratory Garden Warbler Sylvia borin: compass calibration activity? (2014)

Read more – Journal of Ornithology

type: Research article
status: published

Navigation in migratory birds

Magnetic orientation of marsh warblers (Acrocephalus palustris) and spotted flycatchers (Muscicapa striata) after simulated crossing of the magnetic equator (2025)

Read more – Journal of Experimental Biology

type: Research article
status: published

No evidence for the use of magnetic declination for migratory navigation in two songbird species (2020)

Read more – PLOS ONE

type: Research article
status: published

Magnetic map navigation requires input from the trigeminal nerve in a migratory songbird (2018)

Read more – Scientific Reports

type: Research article
status: published

Migratory Eurasian reed warblers can use magnetic declination to solve the longitude problem (2017)

Read more – Current Biology

type: Research article
status: published

Eurasian reed warblers compensate for virtual magnetic displacement (2015)

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type: Research article
status: published

Orientation and Navigation in migratory bats

Birds are easier to trick: an effect of magnetic field manipulation on migratory orientation of Nathusius’ pipistrelle in the circular release box (2023)

Read more – bioRxiv

type: Research article
status: postponed

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