Pigeon homing: Effects of magnetic pulses on initial orientation

Auk

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 405-415

  Beason, Robert C ^a   Wiltschko, Roswitha ^b   Wiltschko, Wolfgang ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBIA LIVIA;

EID: 0030753671     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089242     Document Type: Article

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