Birds have various means of navigation that they use – it varies with species, but most use landmarks and other visual cues as well as using the stars to navigate. Interesting work that is currently coming out is looking into birds that have magnetically sensitive cells in their face – an amazing adaption that may aid them in finding north.
Very true, they have been rather unfairly bunched in with lizards and bith incorrectly thought to be dumb! All kinds of cognition research coming out is showing that birds are far more capable brain wise than we previously thought!
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ameb commented on :
Thats pretty cool, I don’t think birds get enough credit for their brainpower! 🙂
Kevin commented on :
Very true, they have been rather unfairly bunched in with lizards and bith incorrectly thought to be dumb! All kinds of cognition research coming out is showing that birds are far more capable brain wise than we previously thought!