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Can Carrier-pigeons Cross the Atlantic?

Nature volume 68, page 497 (1903)Cite this article

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COULD any of your readers give me an answer to this query? It is stated in the London Standard (April 20, circâ) that this feat was accomplished in 1886, when three out of nine American carrier-pigeons set free in London returned to their home-huts. I have hitherto been unsuccessful in getting the authority for this particular experiment. From the points of view of bird migration and of seed dispersal, it is a query of considerable importance.

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GUPPY, H. Can Carrier-pigeons Cross the Atlantic?. Nature 68, 497 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068497b0

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