Sentence examples for homing flight from inspiring English sources

(Watch a simulated homing flight in the video above).

The fastest homing flight from south was recorded at the 520 m spot, where the bees returned at an average pace of 65.00±11.66 m·min−1 (Table 1).

Each solo homing flight was first normalized to 500 points using piecewise cubic-spline interpolation.

For our present analysis, we selected only those 35 pairings (of a total of 48) in which the two birds remained together for the duration of the homing flight.

Not all of the factors involved in the homing flight of a pigeon are components of a navigational process, and therefore not all of them must be counted as 'map factors'.

The homing flights of single bees were compared after they were displaced to areas explored or not explored during the orientation flight.

While pigeons are known to use sun compasses on homing flights, and some birds that migrate at night take directional cues from polarized light at twilight, there has been little evidence that daytime migrators make direct use of the sun.

They used their model to simulate and test predictions about wasps' homing flights.

By the end of training, each bird had performed 18 homing flights (six per site).

Thus, we examine here the ability to predict leader follower behaviour in paired flight using individual route fidelity in solo homing flights.

To answer this question, we used GPS technology to track the homing flights of pigeons repeatedly released from different sites either sequentially, in rotation or randomly.