Department of Ornithology

Main publications
  • Atlas der Verbreitung palaearktischer Vögel [Begründet von E. Stresemann und L.A. Portenko. Herausgegeben von E. Stresemann, L.A. Portenko, G. Mauersberger, H. Dathe, I.A. Neufeldt und W.M. Loskot]. 1960, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1976-1978, 1980-1984, 1986-1989, 1991, 1992. Berlin. Lief.1-18.
  • Dolnik V.R. 1975. Migratory disposition in birds. Moscow, 398 pp (in Russian).
  • Dolnik V.R. 1995, Energy and time resources in free-living birds. St.Petersburg, 360 pp (in Russian).
  • Dolnik V.R. 1998. Hypothesis of “warm-blooded” dinosaurs in the light of energetics of recent animals. Uspekhi sovremennoy biologii. Vol.118, N 6: 661-678 (In Russian).
  • Dolnik V.R. 1999. Allometric “construction” of reptiles’ energetics. Zool. zhurnal. Vol. 78, № 11: 1330-1339 (In Russian with English summary).
  • Dolnik V.R. 1999. Reconstruction of pterosauria energetics on the basis of the data on energetics of recent species. Zhurnal obshchey biologii. Vol. 60, № 4: 359-375 (In Russian with English summary).
  • Dolnik V.R. 2000. Allometrics of reproduction in poikilotherm and homoiotherm vertebrates. Izvestia Akademii nauk. Ser. Biol. № 6: 702-712 (In Russian).
  • Dolnik V.R. 2002. Standard metabolism in vertebrates: what is the reason for the difference between poikilotherm and homoiotherm classes. Zool. zhurnal. Vol. 81, № 6: 643-654 (In Russian with English summary).
  • Dolnik V.R. & Gorshkov V.G. 1980. Energetics of the biosphere. Uspekhi phizicheskikh nauk..Vol.. 131, N 3: 441-478 (In Russian).
  • Dolnik V.R., Kendeigh S.C. & Gavrilov V.M. 1977. Avian energetics. In: J. Pinowski and S.C. Kendeigh (eds). Granivorous birds in ecosystems, IBP. Cambridge University Press: 127-204.
  • Dolnik V.R., Payevsky V.A. 1979. Dynamics of numbers of Baltic populations of birds during 1960-1976 // Ekologia 4: 59-69 (in Russian).
  • Dolnik V.R. 2003. Orign of homeothermy: probleme without solution. Zhurnal obshchey biologii. Vol. 64, N 6: 451-462 (In Russian with English summary).
  • Dolnik V.R. 2006. Body mass, energy metabolism, and time in the life of birds. Zool. zhurnal. Vol. 85, N 10: 1155-1163 (In Russian with English summary).
  • Ivanov A.I. 1969. The birds of Pamiro-Alay. Leningrad, 228 pp (in Russian).
  • Ivanov A.I. The birds of USSR. 1972. Bibliographic directory. 1881-1917. Leningrad, 195 pp (in Russian).
  • Ivanov A.I. The catalogue of the USSR birds. Leningrad 276 pp (in Russian).
  • Ivanov A.I. The birds of USSR. 1979. Bibliographic directory. 1918-1945. Leningrad, 405 pp (in Russian).
  • Ivanov A.I. The birds of USSR. 1992. Bibliographic directory. 1946-1970. St.Petersburg, P. 1. 353 pp. P. 2. 385 pp (in Russian).
  • Ivanov A.I., Stegmann B.K. 1964. Concise guide to the birds of USSR (Identification guides to the USSR fauna, published by the Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR, 85). Moscow - Leningrad. 528 pp (in Russian).
  • Ivanov A.I., Stegmann B.K. 1964. Concise guide to the birds of USSR. 2nd edition, corrected and completed (Identification guides to the USSR fauna, published by the Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR, 115). Leningrad. 560 pp (in Russian).
  • Khrabryi V.M. 1991. The birds of St.Petersburg: fauna, distribution, conservation // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 236. 275 pp. (in Russian).
  • Khrabryi V.M. 2005. Birds of the Saint-Petersburg. In: Birds in European Cities. Ginster Verlag, St.Katharinen. P.307-333.
  • Kistchinski A.A. 1980. The birds of the Koryak highland. Moscow, 336 pp (in Russian).
  • Kozlova, E.V. 1957. Charadriiformes, Suborder Alci. P. 1. Fauna of the USSR, new series 65. Moscow - Leningrad, 144 pp (in Russian).
  • Kozlova, E.V. 1961. Charadriiformes, Suborder Limicoles. P. 2. Fauna of the USSR, new series 80. Birds, vol. 2, issue 1. Moscow - Leningrad, 500 pp (in Russian).
  • Kozlova, E.V. 1962. Charadriiformes, Suborder Limicolae. P. 3. Fauna of the USSR, new series 81. Birds, vol. 2, issue 1. Moscow - Leningrad, 433 pp (in Russian).
  • Kozlova E.V. 1952. Avifauna of the Tibetan Plateau, its relationships and history // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 9: 964-1028 (in Russian).
  • Kozlova E.V. 1975. The birds of zonal steppes and deserts of Central Asia // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 59: 248 pp. (in Russian).
  • Krechmar A.V. 1966. The birds of western Taimyr // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 39: 185-312 (in Russian).
  • Loskot V.M. 1972. Intraspecific variation and taxonomy of the Variable Wheatear Oenanthe picata (Blyth) // Vestnik zoologii 4: 28-34 (in Russian).
  • Loskot V.M. 1978. Hyrcanian Tit Parus hyrcanus (Sarudny et Loudon) // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 76: 46-60 (in Russian).
  • Loskot V.M. 1981. On subspecies of the Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos Brehm) // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 102: 62-71 (in Russian).
  • Loskot V.M. 1982. Parus hyrcanus (Sar. et Loud.) - a distinct species. In: Ornithological studies in the USSR. Part 1. Moscow: 24-30.
  • Loskot V.M. 1986a. Geographic variation of the Pallas’s Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi (Cab.) and its taxonomic evaluation // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 150: 157-173 (in Russian).
  • Loskot V.M. 1986b. Phenotypic composition of populations in the zones of secondary contact of Black-eared and Pied Wheatears // Proc. All-Union Ornithol. Soc. 1. Moscow: 17-33 (in Russian).
  • Loskot V.M. 1991a. The main directions of adaptive radiation of Palaearctic wheatears (Oenanthe, Turdidae) // Prod. 10th All-Union Ornithol. Confer. 1. Vitebsk: 101-103 (in Russian).
  • Loskot V.M. 1991b. A new subspecies of the Chiffchaff (Aves, Sylviidae) from the Caucasus // Vestnik zoologii 3: 76-77 (in Russian).
  • Loskot V.M. 1991c. Distribution and life history of the Caucasian Great Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilla rubicilla (Güld.). Proc. Zool. Inst. Acad. Sci. USSR. 231: 43-115. [In Russian].
  • Loskot V.M. 2000. A new subspecies of Pale Sand Martin, Riparia diluta (Sarpe & Whyatt) from the Altai and Middle Siberia (Aves: Hirundinidae) // Zoosystematica Rossica. 8 (2): 352-356.
  • Loskot V.M. 2001. Taxonomic revision of the Hume’s Whitethroat Sylvia althaea Hume, 1878 // Avian Ecology and Behaviour 6: 41-42.
  • Loskot V.M. 2005. Morphological variation and taxonomic revision of five south- eastern subspecies of Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca (L.) (Aves: Sylviidae). Zool. Mededelingen, Leiden 79-3: 157-165.
  • Loskot V.M. 2006. Systematic notes on Asian birds. 61. New data on taxonomy and nomenclature of the Common Sand Martin Riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758) and the Pale Sand Martin R. diluta (Sharpe & Wyatt, 1893). Zool., Leiden 80-5 (13): 213-223.
  • Loskot V.M., Sokolov E.P. 1993. Taxonomy of the mainland and insular Lanceolated Warblers, Locustella lanceolata (Temminck) (Aves: Sylviidae) // Zoosystematica Rossica 2 (1): 189-200.
  • Loskot V.M., Abramson N.I. 2006. A review of forms of Sylvia curruca and S. althaea (Aves, Sylviidae). Zool. zhurn., 85 (12): 1454-1464. (in Russian)
  • Nekrasov B.V. 1978. Morphological characters of the jaw apparatus of finches (Fringillidae) related to seed-eating // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 68: 35-175 (in Russian).
  • Nesov L.A., Panteleyev A.V. 1993. On the similarity of late Cretaceous avifaunas of South America and western Asia // Proc. Zoological Institute Russ. Acad. Sci. 252: 84-94 (in Russian).
  • Neufeldt I.A. 1958. On avifauna of southern Karelia // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 25: 183-254 (in Russian).
  • Neufeldt I.A. 1959. On the breeding of the Indian Cuckoo in Amur region // Ornithologia 2: 192-195 (in Russian).
  • Neufeldt I.A. 1960a. Observations of the breeding of Ussuri Yellow-billed Grosbeak (Eophona migratoria migratoria Hart.) // Zool zhurn. 39: 585-594 (in Russian).
  • Neufeldt I.A. 1960b. Forest Wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus (Gm.) in the woods of lower Amur // Doklady AN SSSR new series 132: 957-960 (in Russian).
  • Neufeldt I.A. 1963. Indian Cuckoo (Cuculus m. micropterus Gould) is a brood parasite of the Amur Red-backed Shrike (Lanius cristatus confuses Stegm.) // Doklady AN SSSR new series 151: 1446-1449 (in Russian).
  • Neufeldt I.A. 1965. Age plumages and its sequence in the Ussuri Yellow-billed Grosbeak (Eophona migratoria migratoria Hart.) // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 35: 319-348 (in Russian).
  • Panteleyev A.V. 1998. New species of Enantiornithes (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the upper Cretaceous of central Kyzylkum // Russ. J. Ornithol. Express-issue 35: 3-15 (in Russian).
  • Panteleyev A.V. 2002. Peculiarities of distribution of some bird species in Northern, Central and East Asia in the Quaternary // Russ. J. Ornithol. Express-issue 186: 471-484 (in Russian).
  • Panteleyev A.V., Nesov L.A. 1993. A small procellariid (Aves: Procellariiformes) from Eocene of Middle Asia. Proc. Zoological Institute Russ. Acad. Sci. 252: 95-103 (in Russian).
  • Panteleyev A.V., Popov E.V., Averianov A.O. 2004. New record of Hesperornis rossicus (Aves, Hesperornithiformes) in the Campanian of Saratov Province, Russia// Paleontological Research. 8. 2: 115-122.
  • Payevsky V.A. 1971. Altas of bird migration on the basis of ringing data at the Kurische Nehrung // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 50: 3-110 (in Russian).
  • Payevsky, V.A. 1973. Atlas of bird migrations according to banding data on the Courland Spit // In: Bykhovsky, B.E. (ed.) Bird migration - ecological and physiological factors. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., N.Y.
  • Payevsky V.A. 1974. Longevity and annual mortality rate in birds // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 55: 142-185 (in Russian).
  • Payevsky V.A. 1976. Population and demographic aspects of bird migration // Results of science and technology. Vertebrate zoology. VINITI, vol. 9: 8-60 (in Russian).
  • Payevsky V.A. 1977. Main methods of estimating demographic parameters of avian populations // Methods of studying productivity and structure of avian species in their distribution range. Vilnius: 70-82 (in Russian).
  • Payevsky V.A. 1985. Demography of birds. Leningrad. (Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 125). 285 pp (in Russian).
  • Payevsky V.A. 1991. Comparative demography of birds: the state of the art and main results // Ekologia 4: 73-78 (in Russian).
  • Payevsky V.A. 1993. Sex structure of avian populations and its variability // Zool. zhurn. 72: 85-97 (in Russian).
  • Payevsky V.A. 1998. Age structure of passerine migrants at the eastern Baltic coast: the analysis of the “coastal effect” // Ornis svecica 8 (4): 171-178.
  • Payevsky V.A., Vysotsky V.G. 2003. Migratory song thrushes Turdus philomelos hunted in Europe: survival rate and other demographic parameters // Avian Science 3: 123-132.
  • Payevsky V.A., Vysotsky V.G., Yefremov V.D., Markovets M.Y., Shapoval A.P. 1997. Sex-specific survival rates in birds // Zhurnal obsch. biol. 58 (6): 5-20.
  • Payevsky V.A., Shapoval A.P., Vysotsky V.G. 2005. Spatial distribution of thrushes migrating through eastern Baltic area as shown by ringing recoveries. OMPO Newsletter. No. 25. P. 5-12.
  • Payevsky V.A. 2006. Mortality rate and population density regulation in the Great Tit Parus major L.: A Review. Russian Journal of Ecology. Vol. 37. No. 3.
  • Payevsky V.A. 2006. Mechanisms of population dynamics in trans-Saharan migrant birds: A review. Entomological Review. Vol. 86. suppl. 1. P. S82-S94.
  • Payevsky V.A. 2007. Demographic structure and population dynamics of songbirds. Moscow-Saint Petersburg. KMK Scientific Press Ltd.
  • Portenko L.A. 1954. The birds of the USSR. P. 3 (Identification guides to the USSR fauna, published by the Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR, 54). Moscow - Leiningrad. 255 pp (in Russian).
  • Portenko L.A. 1954. The birds of the USSR. P. 4 (Identification guides to the USSR fauna, published by the Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR, 69). Moscow - Leiningrad. 415 pp (in Russian).
  • Portenko L.A. 1972. The birds of Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangel Island. P. 1. Leningrad, 424 pp (in Russian).
  • Portenko L.A. 1973. The birds of Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangel Island. P. 2. Leningrad, 324 pp (in Russian).
  • Potapov R.L. 1966. The birds of the Pamirs // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 39: 3-118 (in Russian).
  • Potapov R.L. 1985. Order Galliformes. Part 2. Family Tetraonidae. Fauna of the USSR, new series, 133. Birds, vol. 3, issue 1. Leiningrad, 638 pp. (in Russian).
  • Potapova O.R., Panteleyev A.V. 1999. Birds in economy and culture of Early Iron Age inhabitants of Ust'Poluysk, Lower Ob' River, Northwestern Siberia // Smithson. Contrib. to Paleobiol. 89: 129-137.
  • Round P.D., Loskot V.M. 1994. A reappraisal of the taxonomy of the Spotted Bush-Warbler Bradypterus thoracicus // Forktail 10: 159-172.
  • Sokolov A.M. 1991. Systematics and phylogeny of the order Procellariiformes in the light of the data on the morphology of their jaw apparatus. Ph.D. thesis summary. Moscow, 24 pp (in Russian).
  • Sokolov E.P. 1988. The birds of southeastern Transbaikalia. Ph.D. thesis summary. Leningrad, 19 pp (in Russian).
  • Sokolov E.P., Vysotsky V.G. 2001. Rapid method of molecular sexing of passerines // Zool. zhurn. 80: 1384-1386 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1950. Functional importance of sternum peculiarities in galliforms. In: P.P. Sushkin in memoriam. Moscow - Leningrad: 129-134 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1952. On flight abilities of rails // Zool. zhurn. 31: 714-721 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1955. To the question of adaptive features and phylogenetic relationships of corvids // Zool. zhurn. 34: 1357-1378 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1957a. On flight abilities of doves // Zool. zhurn. 36: 265-274 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1957b. On flight abilities of sandgrouses // Zool. zhurn. 36: 1521-1529 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1958. Phylogenetic relationships of doves and sandgrouses and the position of these birds in the system // Bull. Moscow Natur. Soc. 63. Div. Biol. 4: 25-36 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1961. The rudiment of the distal primary in the birds’ wing // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 29: 227-256 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1962. Main directions of development of flight abilities in waders // Zool. zhurn. 41: 591-603 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1964. To morphology of the distal parts of avian wing // Zool. zhurn. 44: 423-432 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1967. On automatisation of movements of avian wing. In: The problems of bionics. Moscow: 539-543 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B. 1968. Über die phyletishen Beziehungen zwischen Regenpfeifervögeln, Tauben und Flughühnern // J. Ornithol. 109: 441-445.
  • Stegmann B.K. 1970. On the reduction of wing muscles in the process of evolution of class Aves // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 47: 249-261 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.K. 1974. On the phylogenetic relationships between the families Gaviidae and Podicipedidae // Ornithologia 11: 6-19 (in Russian).
  • Stegmann B.C. 1978. Relationships of the superorders Alectoromorphae and Charadriomorphae (Aves): a comparative study of the avian hand. Cambridge-Massachusetts. 119 pp.
  • Vysotsky V.G. 2001. Use the data on individual marking and repeated registration for estimating the absolute number of birds at a study plot by special stochastic models. In: Estimating bird abundance at study plots in modern Russia. Tambov: 15-26 (in Russian).
  • Vysotsky V.G., Payevsky V.A. 2002. Long-term fluctuation of annual survival rate in the Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) in the Eastern Baltic region. In: Long-term dynamics of bird and mammal numbers in relation to the global climate change. Kazan: 200-207 (in Russian).
  • Vysotsky V.G., Valkiūnas G. 2001. Investigation of the long-distance dispersal of migratory passerine birds using blood parasites as biological tags // Proc. Zoological Institute Russ. Acad. Sci. 289: 173-180.
  • Vysotsky V.G. 2005. Survival of the Starling Sturnus vulgaris in the Eastern Baltic: different stages of the population dynamics. Avian Ecol. Behav. Vol. 13: 1-10.
  • Vysotsky V.G. 2006. Current avian demograpyhy / Proc. XII Int. Ornithol. Conf. Of Nothern Eurasia. Stavropol. P.62-75.
  • Vysotsky V.G., Iljinsky I.V. 2007. Factors affecting on annual survival rate and abundance of woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) ringed in north-west Russia. / Dynamics of game animal populations in Northern Europe. Proc. The IV International Symposium. – Petrozavodsk, Inst. Biol.Rus. Acad. Sci. P.183-189.
  • Winter S.V. 1983. The birds of Burein-Khingan lowland and conservation of rare species. Ph.D. thesis summary. Leningard, 22 pp (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1958. Cranium kinetism of larids and alcids // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 25: 164-182 (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1961. On the mechanism of mandible of Charadriiformes, Procellariiformes and some other birds // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 29: 257-302 (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1964. Propatagial apparatus of Charadriiformes, Aves // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 33: 212-225 (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1965. Phylogeny and classification of Charadriiformes. Fauna of the USSR, new series 91. Birds, vol. 2, part 1. Moscow - Leningrad, 261 pp. (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1968. Concise guide to Procellariiformes of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic // Studies of marine fauna 6: 200-255 (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1970. Biological significance and evolution of cranium kinetism in birds // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 47: 32-66 (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1974. On the concept of ‘character’ and levels of development of animal systematics // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 53: 5-29 (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1977. Seabirds: maps C, D // Atlas of oceans: Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Moscow: 249.
  • Yudin K.A. 1978a. Systematic position of Peltohyas australis Gould and the natural border between Limicolae and Laro-Limicolae (Charadriiformes, Aves) // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 68: 3-34 (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1978b. Classical morphological characters and the modern avian systematics // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 76: 3-8 (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A. 1983. Morphological systems of class Aves and the possibilities of their further improvement // Proc. Zoological Institute Acad. Sci. USSR 116: 3-10 (in Russian).
  • Yudin K.A., Firsova L.V. 2002. Charadriiformes. P. 1. Skuas of the family Stercorariidae and Larinae gulls. Fauna of Russia and adjacent countries, new series 146. Birds vol. 2, part 2. St. Petersburg, 667 pp (in Russian).