Radio 5 Live has been criticised for airing too little serious news – and too much of sports such as Formula One. But now the station is in the firing line for another alleged offence: confusing migrating birds. The Daily Telegraph reports on its front page that researchers have found that AM radio transmitters could cause birds such as robins to lose their way by disturbing their built-in compass. It quotes Professor Henrik Mouritson of the University of Oldenburg as saying: "Every piece of equipment with a plug, when you plug it in, it's going to make electromagnetic noise at some frequency range. If you could sense this it would probably be like some kind of rock concert going on all the time." Monkey wonders what the birds make of 5 Live's Fighting Talk.
