Department of Ornithology

Projects 1997–2009




Programs of fundamental researches

in the framework of Department of General Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences

  • Taxonomy, fauna and zoogeography of some avian groups.
  • Taxonomy and phylogeny of fossil birds (late cretaceous, palaeogene, and quaternary).
  • Taxonomy, identification tables and the revision of some bird’s groups.
  • Seasonal cyclicity in birds on the endogenous annual and circadian programs.
  • Comparative analysis of energetic metabolism and its adaptive features in birds and reptiles.
  • Making up a catalogue of nomenclature types in the collection of Ornithological Department, Zoological Institute.
  • Birds of urban territories by the example of birds in Saint-Petersburg.
  • Patterns of population dynamics and population structures by the example of Passerines in Eastern Baltic.
  • Fauna, taxonomy and the problems of population structure of Palearctic birds.


Projects supported by the Russian Fund of Fundamental Research

  • Comparative demographic analysis of sex-specific mortality in animals and humans.
  • The use of demographic and morphometric parameters for the prognosis of trends in animal populations (by the example of birds).


Projects supported by foreign funds

  • Demographic parameters and distribution of hunted thrush populations.