Homing flights of pigeons over familiar terrain

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1229-1240

  Wiltschko, Roswitha ^a   Schiffner, Ingo ^a   Siegmund, Bettina ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Columba livia domestica; familiar terrain; GPS tracks; homing; navigation; pigeon; road following; route stereotypy

Indexed keywords

FAMILIARITY; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; GAMEBIRD; GPS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; TERRAIN;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANKFURT; GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 34547992991     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.01.028     Document Type: Article

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