Tiny backpacks and cameras on homing pigeons revealed their eye movements during flight. These birds made slow, gentle eye ...

Homing pigeons are bred for their navigation skills. They find their way along a mental map of signs and smells, using the sun and the Earth’s geomagnetic field as a biological compass to find their ...

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, ...

Pigeons have extraordinary navigational abilities. Take a pigeon from its loft and let it go somewhere it has never been before and it will, after circling in the sky for while, head home. This ...

Homing pigeons are usually remarkably efficient navigators, however, on rare occasions, things go drastically wrong. So, when Jon Hagstrum of the US Geological Survey read in his local newspaper about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homing pigeon being released by scientist (Christian Ziegler/ Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior) Homing pigeons owe their ...

A new theory explains why homing pigeons are so good at navigating back to their nests--and why sometimes they are not. By Clay Dillow Published Feb 1, 2013 7:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...