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Magnetoreception in Birds and Its Use for Long-Distance Migration∗∗Because our knowledge of magnetoreception did not change dramatically over the last few months, there is significant text and content overlap between the present chapter and a chapter focusing on magnetoreception in all kinds of organisms and titled “The Magnetic Senses,” which I recently wrote for the textbook Neurosciences: Mouritsen, H., 2013. The magnetic senses. In: Galizia, C.G., Lledo, P.M. (Eds), Neurosciences—From Molecule to Behavior: A University Textbook. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 427–443, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-10,769-6_20. Springer Verlag has permitted the reuse of significant parts of the Neurosciences textbook chapter text and figures in the present chapter. Specific references to this text are not given at every location where text is reused because such references would compromise readability and could be misunderstood to be referring to primary research findings.

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