I wonder how visual memory of landmarks is intertwined with the magnetoreception. This must be quite handy when looking at mountains and buildings.
Unravelling the enigma of bird magnetoreception
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Re: Unravelling the enigma of bird magnetoreception
#12Do you suppose they actually see the magnetic field, or does the avian brain process it some other way? It's somehow more difficult to imagine being a bird after reading this. Unravelling the enigma to get to the mystery.
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Re: Unravelling the enigma of bird magnetoreception
#13Do you suppose they actually see the magnetic field, or does the avian brain process it some other way? It's somehow more difficult to imagine being a bird after reading this. Unravelling the enigma to get to the mystery.
Would you want to 'see' which way is up?
There's nothing to see pre 100 years ago. And with human things unless the bird is actually centimetres away there is also nothing they could see given the resolution they could perceive. Literally there is only a direction.
And they don't even have a north or south direction, if swapped they can't tell. So it's less of a sense than up/down.