Infrasound and the Avian Navigational Map

Hagstrum, Jonathan T.

doi:10.1017/s037346330100145x

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“…True navigation implies that animals orient themselves by relying on cues available at the unfamiliar release site, and these usually are cues with a worldwide geographic distribution such as magnetic cues (Wiltschko and Wiltschko 1995;Lohmann 1991), lightdependent cues (Muheim et al 2006;Phillips et al 2010), infrasound cues (Hagstrum 2000), or odor cues (Jorge 2011;Wallraff 2005). In Experiment 3, we showed that adult L. pholis were able to orient themselves toward their home areas even if they were placed in an unfamiliar distant area, and they did so by relying on cues available in the unfamiliar area (Fig.…”

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Homing in rocky intertidal fish. Are Lipophrys pholis L. able to perform true navigation?

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Although navigation is common in many animals, only a few perform true navigation, meaning that they have the ability to return to a given place by relying on indirect cues obtained at the release site (i.e., by relying on information from a ''map and compass'' mechanism). The common intertidal fish, Lipophrys pholis, is thought to have homing abilities through a mechanism that primarily makes use of familiar landmarks (i.e., piloting). Anecdotal reports that individuals return to their home pools after release at unfamiliar sites suggest that L. pholis might use cues collected at the release site to find their way back (i.e., they might use map and compass information). Using a completely artificial setup, we tested the homing abilities of L. pholis as a function of age, sex, and familiarity with the release site. The findings showed that motivation for homing is present only in the adult phase and is independent of sex and/or familiarity with the release site. Moreover, adults released at a completely unfamiliar place oriented themselves in a direction roughly similar to that of their home pools. The fact that L. pholis were tested in a complete artificial environment means that hydrodynamic cues can be excluded as playing a role in this process and restricts the candidate options (e.g., magnetic cues). The ability to perform navigation based on a ''map and compass'' mechanism raises many interesting questions about the learning process, once these individuals have restricted home ranges during their lives. In vertebrate navigation, the cues used during the navigation process are a question of debate, and L. pholis offers an outstanding model to test hypotheses and ultimately provide answers.

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“…Current evidence does not support their use in this way, however, but rather indicates they act as a compass (Wallraff, 2005). Infrasound has been proposed to play a role in the navigation of homing pigeons (Hagstrum, 2000;Hagstrum, 2001), but so far only correlative evidence based on disturbance of orientation exists. The intensity and/or inclination of the Earth's magnetic field could be used to determine latitude (Phillips, 1996), and it has also been argued that the difference between magnetic (Phillips et al, 2006).…”

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Testing the role of sensory systems in the migratory heading of a songbird

Holland

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Gagliardo

et al. 2009

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARYThe identification of the sensory cues and mechanisms by which migratory birds are able to reach the same breeding and wintering grounds year after year has eluded biologists despite more than 50 years of intensive study. While a number of environmental cues have been proposed to play a role in the navigation of birds, arguments still persist about which cues are essential for the experience based navigation shown by adult migrants. To date, few studies have tested the sensory basis of navigational cues used during actual migration in the wild: mainly laboratory based studies or homing during the non-migratory season have been used to investigate this behaviour. Here we tested the role of olfactory and magnetic cues in the migration of the catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) by radio tracking the migration of birds with sensory manipulations during their actual migratory flights. Our data suggest that adult birds treated with zinc sulphate to produce anosmia were unable to show the same orientation as control adults, and instead reverted to a direction similar to that shown by juveniles making their first migration. The magnetic manipulation had no effect on the orientation of either adults or juveniles. These results allow us to propose that the olfactory sense may play a role in experience based migration in adult catbirds. While the olfactory sense has been shown to play a role in the homing of pigeons and other birds, this is the first time it has been implicated in migratory orientation. Supplementary material available online at

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“…Currently, the Domestic Pigeon is selectively bred for longdistance flight and increased philopatry. Scientific studies have been mainly focused on determining which navigation strategies Domestic Pigeons use to return to their lofts (Wiltschko 1996, Hagstrum 2000, Holland et al 2000. Because Homing Pigeons seldom join Feral Pigeon populations, they contribute little to the formation of the Feral Pigeon gene pool (Haag 1998b).…”

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Dispersion Asymmetry within a Feral PigeonColumba liviaPopulation

Hetmański¹

2007

Acta Ornithologica

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Infrasound and the Avian Navigational Map

Cited by 66 publications

References 38 publications

Homing in rocky intertidal fish. Are Lipophrys pholis L. able to perform true navigation?

Homing in rocky intertidal fish. Are Lipophrys pholis L. able to perform true navigation?

Testing the role of sensory systems in the migratory heading of a songbird

Dispersion Asymmetry within a Feral PigeonColumba liviaPopulation

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