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. 2009 Oct 23;6:25. doi: 10.1186/1742-9994-6-25

Table 1.

Orientation performance scores of all birds tested in the magnetic orientation task and in the visually guided orientation task

magnetic orientation visual orientation
bird shifted field shifted field
+
HF
bird shifted field shifted field
+
HF

b1 0.7 0.4 b11 0.9 1

b2 0.9 0.5 b12 0.6 0.7

b3 0.7 0.4 b13 1 1

b4 0.7 0.3 b14 1 0.7

b5 0.6 0.4 b15 0.9 1

b6 0.8 0.8 b16 0.9 0.8

b7 0.8 0.6 b17 1 0.9

mean 0.74 0.49 mean 0.9 0.87

SD 0.098 0.17 SD 0.14 0.14

Scores were calculated from the number of correct and incorrect choices of each bird. A score of 1 shows that all choices were in the correct axis (for magnetic orientation) or in the correct direction (for visual orientation), 0 determined no correct choice.