The seasonal migration of birds of many species is an established fact, but the means whereby they are able to navigate over the vast distances involved remains a largely unsolved problem which has been reviewed in detail by Matthews (1955) and Dorst (1962). In particular, the possibility that the earth's magnetic field might provide one fixing co-ordinate by some interaction with a magnetically se...
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