Birds

Birds

Birds are able to see and use the Earth's Magnetic field to migrate due to a protein in their eyes called CRY4. To them, the Earth's Magnetic field appears to be a bright haze in the sky in the direction of North or South. Their brain even produces this protein during the migration season.

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