European Robins and Quantum Navigation

Whisky education from Whisk(e)y Advent 2025 (2025-12-17). Summary below; full write-up with sources and images: calendar/2025-12-17.qmd.

A tangent from the ‘Redbreast’ name: migratory birds may navigate via the Earth’s magnetic field using cryptochrome proteins that form quantum-entangled radical pairs under blue light. Orientation experiments with European robins support the theory.