TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schiffner, Ingo
A1  - Fuhrmann, Patrick
A1  - Reimann, Juliane
A1  - Wiltschko, Roswitha
T1  - Behavioural traits of individual homing pigeons, Columba livia f. domestica, in their homing flights
T2  - PLoS one
N2  - 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.
KW  - Pigeons
KW  - Birds
KW  - Bird flight
KW  - Animal flight
KW  - Homing behavior
KW  - Animal navigation
KW  - Binoculars
KW  - Domestic animals
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47040
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-470408
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - Copyright: © 2018 Schiffner et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
N1  - Correction erschienen in: PLoS one, volume 13, issue 11, e0208170 (2018), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0208170
VL  - 13
IS  - (9): e0201291
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -