A new theory claims to have solved the long-standing conundrum of how homing pigeons use Earth's magnetic field to find their way. The hypothesis: pigeon livers act like compasses. Biologists have ...

When it comes to flocking together, homing pigeons use a simple strategy to find better ways home, according to a recent report. The study, published in the journal eLife, suggests that homing pigeons ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 Add Popular Science (opens in a ...

A young homing pigeon must learn quickly how to find its way home from the strange neighborhoods where humans insist on leaving it. At first the bird does this by relying on its crudest instincts, ...

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 ...

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 ...