Do release-site biases reflect response to the Earth's magnetic field during position determination by homing pigeons?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1671, 2009, Pages 3295-3302

  Mora, Cordula V ^a   Walker, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Homing pigeon; Magnetic; Navigation; Position determination; Release site bias

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR MAP; DATA SET; FLIGHT; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; NAVIGATION; PASSERINE; SITE SELECTION; SLOPE ANGLE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FLIGHT; FLYING; HOME ENVIRONMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; POSITION EFFECT; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 70349434785     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0872     Document Type: Article

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