Projektnummer

0051710

Zusammenfassung

The professorship is focused on understanding the behavioural, molecular, physiological and cognitive mechanisms underlying migration and long-distance navigation. What mechanisms enable birds with a brain weighing less than a gram to circumnavigate the globe with a precision unobtainable by human navigators before the emergence of GPS satellites? How do young birds find the species specific wintering quarter on their own, even though they have never been there before? How does experience influence their spatiotemporal orientation strategies? What is the physiological basis for sensing...