How do birds navigate and pigeons home?

Despite decades of research, no one knows how birds navigate to destinations hundreds of miles away. Rupert suggests that there is a field-mediated sense of direction through which they are attracted towards their goals. This is the first of a series of six talks on potential breakthroughs in the sciences released as an online course here:https://www.sheldrake.org/online-coursesRelated book:Seven Experiments That Could Change the Worldhttps://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/seven-experiments-that-could-change-the-worldReferences____Satellite Tracking of Wandering AlbatrossesJouventin,P. and Weimerskirsch, H. 1990. Nature 343, 745-748.____Perdeck, Albert C.Two Types of Orientation in Migrating Starlings, Sturnus yulgaris L., and Chaffinches, Fringilla coelebs L., as Revealed by Displacement Experiments. Ardea, 55(1–2) : 1-2.____Netherlands Ornithologists' Unionhttps://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v1i2.p1____Magnetic Fields 1750-1980 Bloxham, J. and Gubbins, D. 1985. The secular variation of tye earth’s magnetic field. Nature 317, 778-781.____World War 1 Pigeon Loft Photospublic domain____Mobile Loft Experiment at Coldham hall, Suffolk, 1989With Robbie Robson of Bury St. Edmunds Racing Pigeon ClubPhoto by: Jill Purce____Dutch Navel Pigeon ExperimentHNLMS TydemanJune, 1995Filmed by: Louis van Gasteren, Gregor Meerman and Jacqueline van Vugt