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The Keele Repository is intended to be an Open Access showcase for the published research output of the university. Whenever possible, refereed documents accepted for publication, or finished artistic compositions presented in public, will be made available here in full digital format, and hyperlinks to standard published versions will be provided.



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A Double-Clock or Jetlag Mechanism is Unlikely to be Involved in Detection of East–West Displacements in a Long-Distance Avian Migrant (2010)
Journal Article

Migratory birds are known to be able to navigate—to determine their position on the globe and the direction toward their distant goal—even if they cannot perceive any information emanating from the goal. One hypothesis, that of true bicoordinate navi... Read More about A Double-Clock or Jetlag Mechanism is Unlikely to be Involved in Detection of East–West Displacements in a Long-Distance Avian Migrant.

An attempt to develop an operant conditioning paradigm to test for magnetic discrimination behavior in a migratory songbird (2012)
Journal Article

Birds are thought to possess two magnetosensory systems: (1) a chemical sensor in the bird’s eye, and (2) a magnetoreceptor innervated by the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve (V1) and presumably located in the upper beak. It has been recentl... Read More about An attempt to develop an operant conditioning paradigm to test for magnetic discrimination behavior in a migratory songbird.