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How migratory birds can navigate home from their wintering grounds to their breeding sites over hundreds and thousands of kilometres has been an admired mystery over more than a century. Profound advances towards a solution of this problem have been achieved with a model bird, the homing pigeon. This monograph summarizes our current knowledge about pigeon homing, about the birds' application of a sun compass and a magnetic compass, of a visual topographical map within a familiar area and -- most surprisingly -- of an olfactory map using atmospheric chemosignals as indicators of position in distant unfamiliar areas.

Bird navigation. --- Birds --- Homing pigeons. --- Migration. --- Carrier pigeons --- Homers (Birds) --- Pigeons --- Migratory birds --- Navigation by birds --- Animal navigation --- Navigation --- Animal behavior. --- Animal ecology. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Animal Ecology. --- Animals --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Behavior --- Behavioral sciences. --- Behavior, animal --- Homing behavior --- Columbidae --- physiology