Eyelid squinting during food pecking in pigeons

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The Journal of Experimental Biology. Company of Biologists. 2020, 223(11), jeb223313. ISSN 0022-0949. eISSN 1477-9145. Available under: doi: 10.1242/jeb.223313
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The visual control of pecking by pigeons (Columba livia) has latterly been thought to be restricted to the fixation stops interrupting their downward head movements because these stops prevent interference by motion blur. Pigeons were also assumed to close their eyes during the final head thrust of the peck. Here, we re-examined their pecking motions using high-speed video recordings and supplementary provisions that permitted a three-dimensional spatial analysis of the movement, including measurement of pupil diameter and eyelid slit width. The results confirm that pigeons do not close their eyes completely during the presumed optically ballistic phase of pecking. Instead, their eyelids are narrowed to a slit. The width of this slit is sensitive to both the ambient illumination level and the visual background against which seed targets have to be detected and grasped. There is also evidence of some interaction between pupil diameter and eyelid slit width. We surmise that besides being an eye-protecting reflex, the partial covering of the pupil with the eyelids may increase the depth of focus, enabling pigeons to obtain sharp retinal images of peck target items at very close range and during the beak-gape ‘handling’ of food items and occasional grit particles.

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ISO 690OSTHEIM, Joachim, Julia A. M. DELIUS, Juan DELIUS, 2020. Eyelid squinting during food pecking in pigeons. In: The Journal of Experimental Biology. Company of Biologists. 2020, 223(11), jeb223313. ISSN 0022-0949. eISSN 1477-9145. Available under: doi: 10.1242/jeb.223313
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  doi={10.1242/jeb.223313},
  title={Eyelid squinting during food pecking in pigeons},
  number={11},
  volume={223},
  issn={0022-0949},
  journal={The Journal of Experimental Biology},
  author={Ostheim, Joachim and Delius, Julia A. M. and Delius, Juan},
  note={Article Number: jeb223313}
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