0 a pigeon (= a type of bird) that is trained to return to its home from any place that it starts its journey
There have been two mechanisms implicated in homing pigeon magnetoreception: the visually mediated free-radical pair mechanism and a magnetite based directional compass or inclination compass.
When he was nine years old he received his first homing pigeons which he raced and trained with his friends.
It has been bred into several varieties kept by hobbyists, of which the best known is the homing pigeon or racing homer.
It will carry a message to the intended recipient by flying to them much like a homing pigeon.
It is a homing pigeon with a very good homing instinct, but can not be used for racing because the adults can not be trained.
A homing pigeon was fitted with an aluminium breast harness to which a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera could be attached.
Homing pigeon orientation influenced by deflected winds at home loft.
On the top floor is a room set up as a homing pigeon house, with a right angular hole to fly through and 32 niches as nesting holes.
