TY  - CONF
A1  - Hünerbein, Karen von
A1  - Rüter, Eckhard
A1  - Wiltschko, Wolfgang
T1  - Flight tracks of homing pigeons measured with GPS
N2  - Flight paths of homing pigeons were measured with a newly developed recorder based on GPS. The device consists of a GPS receiver board, a logging facility, an antenna, a power supply, a DCDC converter and a casing. It has a weight of 33g and works reliably with a sampling rate of 1/s with an operation time of about 3 h, providing timeindexed data on geographic positions, ground speed and altitude. The data are downloaded when the bird is recaptured. The devices are fixed to the birds with a harness. The measured complete flight paths show many details: e.g. initial loops flown immediately after release and large detours flown by some pigeons. We are here presenting 3 examples of flight paths from a release site 17.3 km Northeast of the home loft in Frankfurt. Mean speed in flight, duration of breaks and length of the flight path were calculated. The pigeons chose different routes and have different individual tendencies to fly loops over the village close to the release site.
KW  - Brieftaube
KW  - Orientierungsverhalten
KW  - Flugdatenregistriergerät
KW  - GPS <Satellitengeodäsie>
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2983
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-24219
N1  - Postprint, zuerst in Conference Proceedings of RIN 01 Orientation & Navigation - Birds, Humans & Other Animals April 10th-12th, 2001 (ed: Royal Institute of Navigation): Paper 29 ; u.d.T. "Flight tracks of homing pigeons measured with GPS" auch in: J. Navigation 54(2): 167
ER  -