Route recapitulation and route loyalty in homing pigeons: Pilotage from 25 km?

Journal of Navigation

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-53

  Biro, Dora ^a   Meade, Jessica ^a   Guilford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bird navigation; Pigeon homing

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION);

BIRD; NAVIGATION;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 31144472130     PISSN: 03734633     EISSN: 14697785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0373463305003541     Document Type: Article

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