ArticlePloS one2018
Behavioural traits of individual homing pigeons, Columba livia f. domestica, in their homing flights.
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- Hippocampal Local Field Potentials Encode Continuous Flight Speed in Homing Pigeons via Complementary Gamma and Theta Signatures.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Hippocampal LFP Responses during Pigeon Homing Flight in Outdoors.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- The effect of temporal resolution and contact duration on Real-Time location system-based contact networks for confined feedlot cattle.Preventive veterinary medicine · 2025Article
- A GPS assisted translocation experiment to study the homing behavior of red deer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Current Stimulation of the Midbrain Nucleus in Pigeons for Avian Flight Control.Micromachines · 2021Article
- Accounting for space and uncertainty in real-time location system-derived contact networks.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Correction: Behavioural traits of individual homing pigeons, Columba livia f. domestica, in their homing flights.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
Homing tracks of two groups of pigeons, Columba livia f. domestica, were analyzed in view of difference between individual birds and correlations between characteristic variables, looking at the initial phase while the pigeons were still at the release site, and the homing phase separately. Individual birds differed significantly in their flying speed during the initial phase, and one pigeon tended to stay longer at the release site than the others. There were no significant differences in steadiness and efficiency, indicating that all pigeons homed equally well. Differences in correlation dimension, a variable reflecting the complexity of the navigational process, reflect differences in the use of navigational information, with one bird apparently using less complex information than others. The flying speed during the initial phase was positively correlated with the flying speed during the homing phase. During the homing phase, the steadiness of flight and the efficiency of homing were closely correlated, and both tended to be positively correlated with the correlation dimension, suggesting that birds that use more complex navigational information home more efficiently.
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