Pigeon homing: sun compass use in the southern hemisphere

Circular Statistics in Biology

Geoffrey S. Watson, Edward Batschelet · Technometrics · 1982 · 4.6K citations

Natural Sciences, Biology, Mathematics +5

Effects of a “permanent” clock-shift on the orientation of young homing pigeons

Wolfgang Wiltschko, Roswitha Wiltschko, William T. Keeton · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 1976 · 69 citations

Life Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Zoology +8

Magnetic information affects the stellar orientation of young bird migrants

Peter Weindler, Roswitha Wiltschko, Wolfgang Wiltschko · Nature · 1996 · 69 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Zoology +15

The flexible migratory orientation system of the savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)

K. P. Able, Matthias Able · Journal of Experimental Biology · 1996 · 64 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Ecology, Zoology +16

Growing up in an altered magnetic field affects the initial orientation of young homing pigeons

Wolfgang Wiltschko, Roswitha Wiltschko, William T. Keeton et al. · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 1983 · 56 citations

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Zoology +13