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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Homing in with GPS



Putting GPS on a small bird requires sophisticated technologies and perseverance. To better understand how homing pigeons navigate, researchers developed a GPS Flight Recorder small enough to fit between the wings of a pigeon.

Follow the study on Ruter's link:


Karen von Hunerbein
Eckhard Ruter
University of Frankfurt, Germany
Summer 2000