Articles for tag: avian cognition, chickadees, gaze direction, hippocampus, spatial memory

Black-capped chickadee on a small tree branch

Gaze and Memory: Chickadees Recall Places Without Taking Flight

April Joy Jovita

A new study published in Nature reveals that black-capped chickadees can recall specific locations simply by looking at them, without needing to fly or physically visit the site. This discovery provides compelling evidence that spatial memory in birds can be triggered by visual fixation alone, reshaping how scientists understand navigation, attention, and planning in freely ...