London - Sana
A recent British study revealed that migratory birds when lost can read the Earth's magnetic field well enough to find their way again.
According to the British newspaper, the Daily Mail, the study’s authors exposed some Eurasian birds to a false magnetic field thousands of miles from their usual path to see how they would react, but despite all the other signals from their actual location, they prepared to fly toward the location that matches the location of the false magnetic field. .
The researchers believe that this proves that birds use the Earth's magnetic field as their primary way to navigate the sites, allowing them to be corrected if necessary.
The study researcher and sensory biologist Richard Holland of the University of Bangor in Wales explained that the dominant impulse the birds had was a response to the magnetic information they received, which shows that the birds are able to sense that they are outside the boundaries of magnetic fields and to adequately extrapolate their location from the signals.