Homing mechanisms in sight by Guilford, T

NAVIGATION - HOMING MECHANISMS IN SIGHT by Guilford, T

Accurate route demonstration by experienced homing pigeons does not improve subsequent homing performance in naive conspecifics. by Banks, A, Guilford, T

“…We describe an experiment that uses the grouping tendencies and navigational abilities of the homing pigeon (Columba livia) to investigate the possibility of socially mediated information transfer in a field setting. …”

From compromise to leadership in pigeon homing. by Biro, D, Sumpter, D, Meade, J, Guilford, T

“…Pigeons are now known to recapitulate faithfully their individually distinct habitual routes home , and this provides a novel paradigm for investigating collective decisions during flight under varying levels of interindividual conflict. …”

The roles of the sun and the landscape in pigeon homing by Wallraff, H, Chappel, J, Guilford, T

Learning multiple routes in homing pigeons. by Flack, A, Guilford, T, Biro, D

“…For example, we know that pigeons (Columba livia), long-standing models for avian navigation, rely on individually distinct routes when homing from familiar sites. But it remains unknown how they cope with the task of learning several routes in parallel. …”

The roles of the sun and the landscape in pigeon homing. by Wallraff, H, Chappell, J, Guilford, T

“…It seems reasonable to assume that pigeons use visual features in the landscape for orientation when they are homing over familiar terrain. Experimental evidence to prove or disprove this possibility is, however, difficult to obtain. …”

The orientational salience of visual cues to the homing pigeon by Chappell, J, Guilford, T

“…In previous such experiments performed outdoors, homing pigeons, Columba livia, primarily used the sun compass rather than visual cues to locate the target goal. …”

Discrimination and recognition of photographs of places by homing pigeons. by Dawkins, MS, Guilford, T, Braithwaite, V, Krebs, JR

“…Operant studies on pigeons using slide-projected images suggest that photographs of geographical locations might be used as a research tool to study the importance of visual landmarks in homing. Before using this method, however, it is necessary to show that pigeons do see photographic slides as representing real world locations. …”

The social transmission of spatial information in homing pigeons. by Burt de perera T, Guilford, T

“…We adapted a technique to explore the social transmission of spatial information in homing pigeons Columba livia. Five demonstrator pigeons were first trained to find a food goal within an indoor arena. …”

VIEWING FAMILIAR LANDSCAPES AFFECTS PIGEON HOMING by Braithwaite, V, Guilford, T

“…We suggest several ways in which viewing familiar landscapes remote from the home loft might be involved in pigeon homing.…”

Homing pigeons develop local route stereotypy. by Meade, J, Biro, D, Guilford, T

“…We used high-resolution global positioning system (GPS) loggers to track homing pigeons as they became progressively familiar with a local homing task. …”

Route recognition in the homing pigeon, Columba livia by Meade, J, Biro, D, Guilford, T

“…While homing pigeons are known to use familiar visual landmarks to recognize release sites, it is less clear whether they continue to attend to visual cues along the homeward flight. …”

RECOGNITION OF FAMILIAR VISUAL LANDMARKS IN HOMING PIGEONS by Braithwaite, V, Guilford, T

Homing pigeons use olfactory cues for navigation in England by Guilford, T, Gagliardo, A, Chappell, J, Bonadonna, F, de Perera, T, Holland, R

Gaussian Processes for Prediction of Homing Pigeon Flight Trajectories by Mann, R, Freeman, R, Osborne, M, Garnett, R, Meade, J, Armstrong, C, Biro, D, Guilford, T, Roberts, S

“…We construct and apply a stochastic Gaussian Process (GP) model of flight trajectory generation for pigeons trained to home from specific release sites. The model shows increasing predictive power as the birds become familiar with the sites, mirroring the animal's learning process. …”

Mechanisms of visually mediated site recognition by the homing pigeon by Biro, D, Guilford, T, Dawkins, MS

“…The recognition of familiar areas by homing pigeons, Columba livia, is now known to depend at least in part on visual cues. …”

Asymmetric visual input and route recapitulation in homing pigeons by Martinho, A, Biro, D, Guilford, T, Kacelnik, A, Gagliardo, A

“…Pigeons (Columba livia) display reliable homing behaviour, but their homing routes from familiar release points are individually idiosyncratic and tightly recapitulated, suggesting that learning plays a role in route establishment. …”

The orientational consequences of flocking behaviour in homing pigeons, Columbia livia by de Perera, T, Guilford, T

“…Two experiments are described which investigate the orientational consequences of flocking in homing pigeons Columba livia. Previous experiments have shown that homing pigeons placed inside a clear-sided release box for 5 min before release from a familiar site have enhanced ground homing speed compared with those placed in an opaque-sided box. …”

Familiar route loyalty implies visual pilotage in the homing pigeon. by Biro, D, Meade, J, Guilford, T

“…By using precision global-positioning-system loggers, we show that homing pigeons (Columba livia) not only come to rely on highly stereotyped yet surprisingly inefficient routes within the local area but are attracted directly back to their individually preferred routes even when released from novel sites off-route. …”