Story: Bird migration
Studies of silvereyes by ornithologist Wolfgang Wiltschko and others have found that the birds appear to see magnetic fields as a faint colour gradient, indicating the local intensity and direction of the field.
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Department of Conservation
Reference: 10048713
Photograph by Peter Reese
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