supported by grant 12-04-00296-a from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research;X.L. was supported by grant 60905060 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China;grant BS2010DX025 from the Scientific Research Foundation for Excellent Middle-Aged and Youth Scientists of Shandong Province of China;grant 2011B11114 from the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities;The writing of this review was inspired by the Bilateral Sino-Russian symposium ‘Animal Magnetic Navigation’ supported by grant 11-04-91216-NSFC-z from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research;grant 61010164 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Migratory birds are known to use a number of different orientation cues to determine and maintain the direction of their movements. They are able to use at least three different sources of compass information, includi...