The mystery of how homing pigeons are able to navigate home may have been solved. The birds use low-frequency sound waves to make a mental map of their location, new research suggests. The findings, ...

Homing pigeons are remarkable navigators. Although they are able to find their loft from almost any location, they do get lost occasionally. The reason why had been a mystery until a scientist ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A modification of the deflector-loft technique first outlined by Baldaccini et al. (1975) is presented in which experienced homing pigeons ...

It is a fascinating phenomenon that homing pigeons always find their way home. Researchers have now carried out experiments demonstrating that pigeons have a spatial map and thus possess cognitive ...

We know that homing pigeons can find their way back to their lofts over hundreds of miles of unfamiliar terrain. What we don't know is how they do it. David Pogue explores competing theories on how ...

Chicago pigeon racing fans won’t see their birds come home to roost as fast as they hoped. An ordinance to let breeders of homing pigeons keep them in lofts in Chicago was held in committee Monday.

Homing pigeons (Columba livia) have been prized for their navigational abilities for thousands of years. They've served as messengers during war, as a means of long-distance communication, and as ...

Everyone who lives in the city has seen pigeons. To most they are just another bird in the background. Sometimes someone tosses them a piece of bread or some such in the Fred Meyer parking lot, but ...

The mystery of how homing pigeons are able to navigate home may have been solved. The birds use low-frequency sound waves to make a mental map of their location, new research suggests. The findings, ...