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In Canada, homing pigeons were used in marine search and rescue in Halifax in the 1890s. "Their ability to navigate is remarkable," Sugarman says.

Knowing the landscape features that pigeons use to navigate could also help researchers to predict the flight patterns of any birds that are active during the day, or diurnal.

"But once homing pigeons have flown a journey more than once, they home in on a habitual route home, much as we do when we are driving or walking home from work.