How Birds Navigate With Quantum Mechanics

How Birds Navigate With Quantum Mechanics

To wrap up our quantum biology series, I wanted to bring things back to something we see everyday: birds!

For the longest time, people have wondered how birds, insects, and other species alike, manage to navigate their way around the world during their seasonal migration routes. They can’t build compasses or GPS systems like us, so what gives?

About 50% of all birds species are migratory, and most of these migratory species follow the same approximately North-South path. Not only that, but bird migration paths are found to take the most direct route to their southern destination. ( Source : https://medium.com/ )

All this brings up a big question; how do these birds even know where to go?