Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — Magnetic Storms Interfere With the Flight of Pigeons. [ARTICLE]

Magnetic Storms Interfere With the Flight of Pigeons.

One of the many explanations that have been offered to account for the fact that migrating birds are able to find their way by night and in cloudy or foggy weather is that they are sensitive in some way to currents of terrestrial magnetism, and therefore direct their flight by the magnetic meridians. This suggestion was put forth by M. A. Thauzies, a French pigeon fancier, who declares that carrier pigeons , make poor flights during the occurrence of magnetic storms. He also asserts that the general use of wireless telegraphy , has diminished the reliability of the birds to a surprising extent—Popular Science Monthly.