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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Nature (2004)Cite this article 6718 Accesses 143 Altmetric Metrics details Iron crystals in their beaks give birds a nose for north. You have full access to this article via The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries It's official: homing pigeons really can sense Earth's magnetic field. An investigation of their ability to detect different magnetic fields shows that their impressive navigation skills almost certainly relies on tiny magnetic particles in their beaks. You don't need a large receptor structure like you do for the eye, because the magnetic field permeates everything. It's like find

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