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Pigeon navigation and magnetic field

Information collected during the outward journey is used in the homing process

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Kiepenheuer, J. Pigeon navigation and magnetic field. Naturwissenschaften 65, 113–114 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00440558

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