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Current research at
the Biological Station Rybachy
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1. Basic projects funded by the Division
of General Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
1) Endogenous and exogenous factors
regulating temporal parameters in the annual cycles
of migratory and sedentary passerines in northern
and north-eastern Europe.
2) Structure of breeding populations
(Courish Spit on the Baltic) of selected passerine
species (11 warblers, 5 titmice) and the mechanism
of their regulation.
3) Seasonal pattern and waves of migration
in diurnal and nocturnal migrants; the role of exogenous
(weather) factors in their regulation.
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2. Joint research project of the Biological
Station Rybachy and Vogelwarte
Radolfzell (Germany) for 1994-2003.
Long-term monitoring of numbers, migration,
moult and biometrical data from European passerines
3. New research projects planned for 2000-2004.
1) Flight activity and stopover ecology in
long- and short-distance passerine nocturnal migrants (Acrocephalus
scirpaceus, Ficedula hypoleuca, Erithacus
rubecula, Sylvia borin, S. atricapilla)
2) Territorial behaviour, juvenile dispersal,
moult and the formation of migratory disposition in juvenile
Acrocephalus scirpaceus and Ficedula hypoleuca
from the Courish Spit.
3) Territorial behaviour, moult and the formation
of migratory disposition in adult Ficedula hypoleuca
from the Courish Spit.
The station is interested in co-operative
projects with Russian and foreign institutions and researchers,
especially within the framework of its own innovative projects.
We are also open to discuss programmes and projects concerning
bird migration and taking into account our capacities.
In 2000 the Biological Station Rybachy invites
volunteers for the following projects:
1) Trapping and ringing at "Fringilla"
in large traps (April 1 - November 1, especially April,
May, September and October)
2) Trapping and ringing at "Rybachy"
in mist-nets (March 27 - June10 and June 30 - November 6)
3) Ringing nestlings and adult Pied Flycatchers
in nest-boxes (May, June, July)
4) Ringing nestlings of the Reed Warbler
(June, July)
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