Learning how to migrate: Young whoopers stay the course when they follow a wise old bird

Thursday, August 29, 2013 - 15:00 in Biology & Nature

How do birds find their way on migration? Is their route encoded in their genes, or learned? Working with records from a long-term effort to reintroduce critically endangered whooping cranes in the Eastern US, researchers found these long-lived birds learn the route from older cranes, and get better at it with age.

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