Abstract
The behaviour of experienced homing pigeons immediately following release was examined temporally at a single release point and spatially from a gridwork of release points. Directional preferences did not diminish with repeated flight experience from the same release point nor did they shift significantly within a release day. Directional preferences varied systematically as a function of both distance and direction of displacement from the home loft and seemed to represent a varying compromise between flying to the NNW and flying toward home. Homeward directedness of vanishing bearings, time to leave the release point and time to reach home are all superior for releases conducted to the south and southeast of the loft.
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