Newsletter of the Animal Navigation Group Issue No. 28 Autumn 2013 Contents 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 1 Correlates 15 Detection and Learning of Floral Electric Fields by Bumblebees 15 Interactions between the visual and the magnetoreception system: Different effects of bichromatic light regimes on the directional behavior of migratory birds 15 An experimental displacement and over 50 years of tag-recoveries show that monarch butterflies are not true navigators 16 Beware the Boojum: caveats and strengths of avian radar 16 Common orientation and layering of migrating insects in southeastern Australia observed with a Doppler weather radar 17 Passive Acoustic Tracking of Singing Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on a Northwest Atlantic Feeding Ground 17 Flexible weighing of olfactory and vector information in the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis 18 Visual Scene Perception in Navigating Wood Ants 18 Mechanistic models of animal migration behaviour – their diversity, structure and use 18 Sensory Navigation Device for Blind People 19 Repeat Tracking of Individual Songbirds Reveals Consistent Migration Timing but Flexibility in Route 19 Migration phenology and seasonal fidelity of an Arctic marine predator in relation to sea ice dynamics 20 Overshadowing of geometry learning by discrete landmarks in the water maze: Effects of relative salience and relative validity of competing cues 20 Predictive ethoinformatics reveals the complex migratory behaviour of a pelagic seabird, the Manx Shearwater 21 Migratory connectivity magnifies the consequences of habitat loss from sea-level rise for shorebird populations 21 Three-Phase Fuel Deposition in a Long-Distance Migrant, the Red Knot Calidris canutus piersmai, before the Flight to High Arctic Breeding Ground 22 Bird Migration Advances More Strongly in Urban Environments 22 Visual Navigation during Colony Emigration by the Ant Temnothorax rugatulus 22 Representation of Three-Dimensional Space in the Hippocampus of Flying Bats 23 A 3D Analysis of Flight Behavior of Malaria Mosquitoes in Response to Human Odor and Heat 23 A Distinct Layer of the Medulla Integrates Sky Compass Signals in the Brain of an Insect 24 The depth of the honeybee's backup sun-compass systems 24 Differences in Speed and Duration of Bird Migration between Spring and Autumn 25 Activity-dependent gene expression in honey bee mushroom bodies in response to orientation flight 25 Migrating Mule Deer: Effects of Anthropogenically Altered Landscapes 25 Error Properties of Argos Satellite Telemetry Locations Using Least Squares and Kalman Filtering 26 Ocean-finding in marine turtles: the importance of low-horizon elevation as an orientation cue 26 From random walks to informed movement 27 Homing Pigeons Respond to Time-Compensated Solar Cues Even in Sight of the Loft 28 An Iron-Rich Organelle in the Cuticular Plate of Avian Hair Cells 28 A magnetic pulse does not affect homing pigeon navigation: a GPS tracking experiment 28 Forty years of olfactory navigation in birds 29 Hippocampal Time Cells: Time versus Path Integration 29 Avian magnetic compass can be tuned to anomalously low magnetic intensities 30 A Trans-Hemispheric Migratory Songbird Does Not Advance Spring Schedules or Increase 2 Migration Rate in Response to Record-Setting Temperatures at Breeding Sites 30 Passive electroreception in aquatic mammals 31 Are harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) able to perceive and use polarised light? 31 Edible Crabs "Go West": Migrations and Incubation Cycle of Cancer pagurus Revealed by Electronic Tags 31 Echolocation in Blainville's beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) 32 Conditional Use of Social and Private Information Guides House-Hunting Ants 32 Increasing the Usability of Pedestrian Navigation Interfaces by means of Landmark Visibility Analysis 33 Biomimetic and bio-inspired robotics in electric fish research 33 Differential Regulation of Adipokines May Influence Migratory Behavior in the White- Throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) 33 Rejoinder: challenge and opportunity in the study of ungulate migration amid environmental change 34 Environmental change and the evolution of migration 34 Animal migration amid shifting patterns of phenology and predation: lessons from a Yellowstone elk herd 35 Carry-over effects from breeding modulate the annual cycle of a long-distance migrant: an experimental demonstration 35 Sun Compass Orientation Helps Coral Reef Fish Larvae Return to Their Natal Reef 36 Advances in tracking small migratory birds: a technical review of light-level geolocation 36 The significance of midsummer movements of Autographa gamma: Implications for a mechanistic understanding of orientation behavior in a migrant moth 37 Apparent dissociation of photoperiodic time measurement between vernal migration and breeding under dim green light conditions in Gambel's white-crowned sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii 37 Revealing the control of migratory fueling: An integrated approach combining laboratory and field studies in northern wheatears Oenanthe oenanthe 38 Lipid reserves and immune defense in healthy and diseased migrating monarchs Danaus plexippus 38 Premigratory fat metabolism in hummingbirds: A rumsfeldian approach 39 Development of the navigational system in homing pigeons: increase in complexity of the navigational map 39 Mapping the navigational knowledge of individually foraging ants, Myrmecia croslandi 39 Use of a light-dependent magnetic compass for y-axis orientation in European common frog (Rana temporaria) tadpoles 40 Automated long-term tracking and social behavioural phenotyping of animal colonies within a semi-natural environment 40 Projected climate-driven faunal movement routes 41 Movements and dispersal of farmed Atlantic salmon following a simulated-escape event 41 Site fidelity and homing behaviour in intertidal fishes 41 Satellite telemetry reveals behavioural plasticity in a green turtle population nesting in Sri Lanka 42 Context-dependent diel behavior of upstream-migrating anadromous fishes 42 Migration and dispersal patterns of bats and their influence on genetic structure. Bats are important ecosystems service providers, make a significant contribution to biodiversity and can be important pests and disease vectors. In spite of this, information on their migration and dispersal patterns is limited. 42 Fall movements of Red-headed Woodpeckers in South Carolina. 43 Effect of neck collars on the body condition of migrating Greater Snow Geese 43 3 Migratory Reed Warblers Need Intact Trigeminal Nerves to Correct for a 1,000 km Eastward Displacement 44 Perceiving space and optical cues via a visuo-tactile sensory substitution system: a methodological approach for training of blind subjects for navigation 44 Complementary Roles of the Hippocampus and the Dorsomedial Striatum during Spatial and Sequence-Based Navigation Behavior 45 Annual rhythms that underlie phenology: biological time-keeping meets environmental change 45 Patterns and influences on Dolly Varden migratory timing in the Chignik Lakes, Alaska, and comparison of populations throughout the northeastern Pacific and Arctic oceans 46 Blue whales respond to simulated mid-frequency military sonar 46 Rates of straying by hatchery-produced Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) and steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) differ among species, life history types, and populations 47 A Depth-Based Head-Mounted