Dr. Leonid Sokolov Senior research fellow Born 21.03.1949 in Leningrad, USSR. Graduated from Leningrad State University, Dept. Vertebrate Zoology with Diploma in Science. Thesis: Orientation ability of migratory and non-migratory species of birds.

1983 - Candidate of Science ( = Ph.D.) at the Zoological Institute, Leningrad. Dissertation: Site fixation of territory of future breeding (site fidelity) in migratory passerines.

1993 - Doctor of Science at the Zoological Institute, St.Petersburg. Dissertation: Philopatry of migratory birds.

Positions:

1971-73 - senior research assistant, Biological Institute of Leningrad State University
1973-91 - researcher, Biological Station Rybachy of the Zoological Institute
1992-93 - senior researcher, Biological Station Rybachy
1993 - now - chief researcher, Biological Station Rybachy

Membership:

St.Petersburg Society of Naturalists
British Ornithologists' Union

Research Interests:

Philopatry, dispersal, homing, orientation, navigation and migration, population dynamics, monitoring of numbers and timing of migration and breeding in birds, climatic changes and breeding/migration phenology of birds

Publications:
About 70 papers.

Sokolov, L.V. 1991a. Philopatry and dispersal in birds. 232 pp. In Russian.

Sokolov, L.V. 1991b. Why do migratory birds return home. Nauka, Moscow: 173 pp. In Russian.

Sokolov, L.V. 1997. Philopatry of migratory birds. Physiology and General Biology Reviews. Harwood Academic Publishers. 60 pp.

Sokolov, L.V., Markovets, M.Yu., Shapoval, A.P., Morozov, Yu.G. 1998. Long-term trends in the timing of spring migration of passerines on the Courish Spit of the Baltic Sea. Avian Ecol. Behav. 1: 1-21.

Sokolov, L.V. & Payevsky V.A. 1998. Spring temperatures influence year-to-year variations in the breeding phenology of passerines on the Courish Spit. Avian Ecol. Behav. 1: 22-36.