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A generally accepted technique to test bird orientation is the Emlen funnel (Emlen and Emlen 1966), that makes use of the activity that migrants show also in a cage.
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Marchetti, C., Baldaccini, N.E. (2003). Individual Variability in Experiments with Emlen Funnels. In: Berthold, P., Gwinner, E., Sonnenschein, E. (eds) Avian Migration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05957-9_28
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