Homing With The Bird
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Homing And Related Activities Of Birds
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Author : John B. Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
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Avian Navigation Pigeon Homing As A Paradigm
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Author : Hans G. Wallraff
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2005-11-13
Avian Navigation Pigeon Homing As A Paradigm written by Hans G. Wallraff and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-13 with Science categories.
How migratory birds can navigate home from their wintering grounds to their breeding sites over hundreds and thousands of kilometres has been an admired mystery over more than a century. Profound advances towards a solution of this problem have been achieved with a model bird, the homing pigeon. This monograph summarizes our current knowledge about pigeon homing, about the birds' application of a sun compass and a magnetic compass, of a visual topographical map within a familiar area and -- most surprisingly -- of an olfactory map using atmospheric chemosignals as indicators of position in distant unfamiliar areas.
The Homing Pigeon
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Author : Edgar Chamberlain
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2011-06-14
The Homing Pigeon written by Edgar Chamberlain and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-14 with Pets categories.
Originally published in 1907. One of the earliest and possibly the most important book ever published on homing pigeons. The well illustrated and detailed chapters include: The Columba Livia - Origin and Production - Lofts and Fittings - Food and Feeding - Interbreeding - Crossing - Mendel's Law Applied to Homing Pigeons - Founding a Loft - Some Physical Characters - Feathers and the Moult - The Homing Instinct - Training - Preparing for Old Bird races - Preparing for Young Bird Races, etc. Many of the earliest pigeon books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Homing And Related Activities Of Birds
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The Homing Instinct
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Author : Bernd Heinrich
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-04-08
The Homing Instinct written by Bernd Heinrich and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Nature categories.
“A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history” (Kirkus Reviews). Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same places. Every year since boyhood, the acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has done the same, returning to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. Which led him to wonder: What is the biology in humans of this primal pull toward a particular place, and how is it related to animal homing? In The Homing Instinct, Heinrich explores the fascinating mysteries of animal migration: how geese imprint true visual landscape memory; how scent trails are used by many creatures to locate their homes with pinpoint accuracy; and how even the tiniest of songbirds are equipped for solar and magnetic orienteering over vast distances. And he reminds us that to discount our human emotions toward home is to ignore biology itself. “A graceful blend of science and memoir . . . [Heinrich’s] ability to linger and simply be there for the moment when, for instance, an elderly spider descends from a silken strand to take the insect he offers her is the heart of his appeal.” —Julie Zickefoose, The Wall Street Journal “Deep and insightful writing.” —David Gessner, The Washington Post
The Homing Or Carrier Pigeon Le Pigeon Voyageur
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Author : William Bernhard Tegetmeier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Homing Or Carrier Pigeon Le Pigeon Voyageur written by William Bernhard Tegetmeier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Homing pigeons categories.
Homing
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Author : Jon Day
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-06-13
Homing written by Jon Day and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 'Rich and joyous ...The book's quiet optimism about our ability to change, and to learn to love small things passionately, will stay with me for a long time' Helen Macdonald 'Big-hearted and quietly gripping' Guardian 'I love Jon Day's writing and his birds. A marvellous, soaring account' Olivia Laing '[A] beautiful book about unbeautiful birds' Observer 'This is nature writing at its best' Financial Times 'Awash with historical and literary detail, and moving moments ... Wonderful' Telegraph 'Every page of this beautifully written book brought me pleasure' Charlotte Higgins 'A vivid evocation of a remarkable species and a rich working-class tradition. It's also a charming defence of a much-maligned bird, which will make any reader look at our cooing, waddling, junk-food-loving feathered friends very differently in future' Daily Mail 'Endlessly interesting and dazzlingly erudite, this wonderful book will make a home for itself in your heart' Prospect As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in moving house, he began to lose a sense of what it meant to feel at home. Returning to his childhood obsession with the birds, he built a coop in his garden and joined a local pigeon racing club. Over the next few years, as he made a home with his young family in Leyton, he learned to train and race his pigeons, hoping that they might teach him to feel homed. Having lived closely with humans for tens of thousands of years, pigeons have become powerful symbols of peace and domesticity. But they are also much-maligned, and nowadays most people think of these birds, if they do so at all, as vermin. A book about the overlooked beauty of this species, and about what it means to dwell, Homing delves into the curious world of pigeon fancying, explores the scientific mysteries of animal homing, and traces the cultural, political and philosophical meanings of home. It is a book about the making of home and making for home: a book about why we return.
The Belgian Homing Pigeon
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Author : John Lane Burgess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
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The Homing Or Carrier Pigeon
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Author : William Bernhard Tegetmeier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
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Homing And Related Activities Of Birds And The Acquisition Of Skill In Archery
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Author : J. B. Watson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-07-20
Homing And Related Activities Of Birds And The Acquisition Of Skill In Archery written by J. B. Watson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-20 with Science categories.
Excerpt from Homing and Related Activities of Birds, And, the Acquisition of Skill in Archery, Vol. 7 The present series of studies on the behavior of birds is a direct outgrowth of an investigation made on the noddy and sooty terns nesting on Bird Key, Tortugas, Florida, by the writer under the auspices of the Marine Biological Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1907 (publication103). The homing instinct is the central topic in all the papers. In the 1907 investigation the fact appeared that terns possess a homing sense, behaving exactly as do homing pigeons when sent away from their nests and young. Such good subjects did the terns appear to be that it was soon decided to make this homing sense the chief object of the Tortugas researches. The topographical situation of Bird Key makes that island especially suitable for carrying out such experiments. In the first place, it is the northern limit of migration of these tropical birds. It becomes possible there to test whether the birds can home in a region never before, in all probability, visited by them. This can be accomplished by sending the birds anywhere north of Bird Key. Secondly, on account of the fact that Bird Key is the last body of land between the coast of Florida and the coast of Texas, the birds can be sent out for hundreds of miles over open water. There is thus afforded an opportunity for testing homing where apparently no visual landmarks can exist. These two conditions have never before been realized, and they are conditions which are indispensable in even a preliminary scientific study of homing. The 1907 investigation already referred to is concerned largely with instincts in terns those of feeding, nesting, brooding, etc. It was necessary to have some survey made of these instinctive types of behavior before the homing instinct itself could be investigated. A part of the opening paper, pp. 355, in the present series gives much additional data on the nesting activities which have a bearing upon the control of experiments on homing. These observations are concerned with the instincts connected with the brooding of the egg, such as the number of shifts.at the nest; retention of mate and nest habits; water habits and instincts, etc. It is thought that these observations, when taken in cormection with those made in the first study, afford accurate means of testing the homing ability in these two species of terns. Having made the necessary investigation of the instinctive life of the terns, it became possible to carry out homing experiments. Preliminary experiments in 1910 (p.47) showed clearly that in order to make a success of the work, some well-trained investigator would have to be sent out with the birds. In the 1910 work the terns were sent out with responsible men attached to the laboratory but who had had no training in feeding and caring for them. On account of this, usually something like half of the birds died en route, and the rest were released at the more distant points in very poor condition. In order to meet this difficulty. Dr. K.S. Lashley was asked in 1913 to associate himself with the work. The very successful returns from the second Galveston trip(p. 54)are due largely to his care of the birds on the forward journey. In addition to his invaluable aid in the problem of distant orientation. Dr. Lashley separately began a study of proximate orientation (p.61), i.e., of the behavior of the terns in locating the nests, mates, young, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com