Spatiotemporal Programmes and Genetics of Orientation

Berthold, Peter

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“…Therefore, they must rely exclusively on inherited orientation capabilities and strategies. To cope with the tasks of migration, it is well established that night-migrating passerines have an inherent time schedule (for a review see Berthold, 1991;Gwinner, 1996), and at least two compasses, a magnetic compass and a celestial compass (e.g. Alerstam, 1990;Wiltschko & Wiltschko, 1991Mouritsen, 1998).…”

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A Mathematical Expectation Model for Bird Navigation based on the Clock-and-Compass Strategy

Mouritsen

2000

Journal of Theoretical Biology

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A Mathematical Expectation Model for Bird Navigation based on the Clock-and-Compass Strategy

Mouritsen

2000

Journal of Theoretical Biology

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“…In particular, migrating songbirds make journeys of thousands of miles, and often return to the same breeding and wintering grounds year after year (Newton, 2007), but the question of how they achieve this remarkable feat remains open to debate (Berthold, 2001;Wiltschko and Wiltschko, 2003;Wallraff, 2005). It has been demonstrated that some juvenile songbirds have an inherited species specific compass direction to reach their wintering grounds on their first journey (Berthold, 1991). However, this may result in a failure to reach their normal winter range if they are displaced large distances (Perdek, 1958).…”

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

Holland

Thorup

Gagliardo

et al. 2009

Journal of Experimental Biology

104

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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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“…Current theory suggests that inexperienced birds depart from their breeding areas flying in a certain compass direction (Berthold, 1991(Berthold, , 1996Mouritsen and Mouritsen, 2000). After some time, they change their migratory direction, if appropriate.…”

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Migratory orientation of first-year white storks (Ciconia ciconia): inherited information and social interactions

Chernetsov

Berthold

Querner

2004

Journal of Experimental Biology

123

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We used satellite tracking to study the migratory orientation of juvenile white storks from the population in the Kaliningrad Region (Russia) during their first autumn migration. Two series of experiments were performed. In the first series of experiments, several groups of first-year storks were raised in an aviary, kept there until all freeliving conspecifics had left the area and then released. These birds had to select their migratory route on the basis of the inherited directional information they possessed, without any chance of being guided by their experienced conspecifics. In the second series of experiments, several groups of juveniles were displaced from the Kaliningrad Region to the Volga area and to Western Siberia. Both areas lie outside the breeding range of the white stork so the displaced birds also had to rely on their innate migratory program. Results from the differently designed experiments did not match. Nor did they match with the results of earlier experiments on the delayed departure of juvenile white storks as reported by several authors. We suggest that naïve white storks (and maybe other soaring migrants) rely on social interactions when selecting their autumn migratory route to a much greater extent than do passerine long-distance migrants.

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Spatiotemporal Programmes and Genetics of Orientation

Cited by 46 publications

References 27 publications

A Mathematical Expectation Model for Bird Navigation based on the Clock-and-Compass Strategy

A Mathematical Expectation Model for Bird Navigation based on the Clock-and-Compass Strategy

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

Migratory orientation of first-year white storks (Ciconia ciconia): inherited information and social interactions

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