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-courses Related book: Seven Experiments That Could Change the World https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/seven-experiments-that-could-change-the-world References ____ Satellite Tracking of Wandering Albatrosses Jouventin,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' Union https://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 Photos public domain ____ Mobile Loft Experiment at Coldham hall, Suffolk, 1989 With Robbie Robson of Bury St. Edmunds Racing Pigeon Club Photo by: Jill Purce ____ Dutch Navel Pigeon Experiment HNLMS Tydeman June, 1995 Filmed by: Louis van Gasteren, Gregor Meerman and Jacqueline van Vugt