German scientists have concluded robins can see Earth's magnetic field which allows us to navigate. Well it's about time... who doesn't know that! How do they think this bird (me, moi) gets around to all those locations for those payload drops that humans ask me to do. (More about that later.)We (birds, that is) have an internal magnetic compass. Scientists are just not sure if it's tiny magnets in our beaks wired to our nervous system that detects lines of magnetic force... OR if magnetic fields are "seen" via our eyes using a complex light-sensitive mechanism. The scientists suggest it's the second theory, at least for the European robins they studied. And I'm not telling! Let them figure it out.
