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EXPERIMENTS on homing in birds were made by one of us1 for the first time in 1933. These showed that wild birds, especially swallows, have more sense of orientation and are better able to find their homes than even carrier pigeons. Later on, Rüppell2 established as a result of a series of experiments that swallows could find their homes from distances as great as 1,850 km. The same applies to starlings and wrynecks.
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Acta Ornithologica Mus. Zool. Polon., 1, 8 (1934).
J. Ornithologie, 85, 1 (1937).
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WODZICKI, K., PUCHALSKI, W. & LICHE, H. Experiments on Homing in Birds. Nature 141, 35–36 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141035b0
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