Newsletter of the Animal Navigation Group

Navigational Efficiency of Nocturnal ‘Myrmecia’ Ants Suffers at Low Light Levels 5 Spatial memory and stereotypy of flight paths by big brown bats in cluttered surroundings 5 Bumblebee calligraphy: the design and control of flight motifs in the learning and return flights of Bombus terrestris 6 Coordinating compass-based and nest-based flight directions during bumblebee learning and return flights 6 Spontaneous magnetic orientation in larval Drosophila shares properties with learned magnetic compass responses in adult flies and mice 7 Magnetic Compass Orientation in the European Eel 7 Animal Behaviour: Monarchs Catch a Cold 8 Endogenous control of migratory behavior in Alaskan Northern Wheatears Oenanthe oenanthe 8 An unknown migration route of the "globally threatened" Aquatic Warbler revealed by geolocators 8 Migration strategies of the Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan 8 Orientation of shorebirds in relation to wind: both drift and compensation in the same region 9 Individual migratory patterns of two threatened seabirds revealed using stable isotope and geolocation analyses 9 Homeward bound: factors affecting homing ability in a polymorphic lizard 10 Migration confers survival benefits against avian predators for partially migratory freshwater fish 10 Pairs of pigeons act as behavioural units during route learning and co-navigational leadership conflicts 11 Response of a free-flying songbird to an experimental shift of the light polarization pattern around sunset 11 Back home at night or out until morning? Nycthemeral variations in homing of anosmic Cory's shearwaters in a diurnal colony 12 The invisible cues that guide king penguin chicks home: use of magnetic and acoustic cues during orientation and short-range navigation 12 Reception and learning of electric fields in bees 13 The behavioural ecology of animal movement: reflections upon potential synergies 13 In search of magnetosensitivity and ferromagnetic particles in Rhodnius prolixus: Behavioral studies and vibrating sample magnetometry 14 Orientation of migrating leatherback turtles in relation to ocean currents 14 Long-Distance Animal Migrations in the Oceanic Environment: Orientation and Navigation