Navigational strategies of homing pigeons at familiar sites: Do landmarks reduce the deflections induced by clock-shifting?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 303-312

  Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a   Siegmund, Bettina ^a   Stapput, Katrin ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMING BEHAVIOR; NAVIGATION; ORIENTATION; PASSERINE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 27644479165     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0043-6     Document Type: Article

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