Most obvious are distractions caused by the visual topography, e.g., attraction by a village or avoiding flying over a forest (cf. Figure 3.21 ), but magnetic noise during flight over a magnetic anomaly also appears to temporarily distract pigeons from flying homeward more directly (what they do when magnetoreception is prevented, thus indicating that it is not part of the home-finding system).
However, the homeward flight was awful.
WHEN Pervez Musharraf embarked on a homeward flight from Sri Lanka, he was chief of Pakistan's army.
Before we know it, the real estate agent is on the phone -- a sure sign of our impending homeward flight.
Therefore, don't mention the volunteering, and have details of your itinerary with you, especially a homeward flight.
Once I watched from the balcony as Concorde swam low across the city on its final homeward flight.
As I clambered on to my homeward flight nursing scorched intestines, I pondered the prospects of Bangladeshis sharing more of their dishes with us over here.
By the evening before the homeward flight, "To the Measures Fall" is stuck stubbornly in Purgatory, along with Wheelock's "What Is Poetry?," James Purdy's "Malcolm," "The Bull from the Sea," by Mary Renault, John Braine's best-seller "Life at the Top," and Updike's "The Centaur," which has got mixed reviews.
When the Daily Mirror syndicated the columns, London's Daily Mail ignored an embargo and printed the pieces while the Australians were on their homeward flight, putting O'Neill in breach of his tour contract, which forbade players from commenting in the media during tours.
This peak fidelity may be a property of the landmarks the birds have chosen to memorize, of the robustness of the memories themselves, or of the birds' motivation to use those memorized landmarks during homeward flight (perhaps similar to the β parameter modelled in [ 12]).
