BIRD
Travel grants
To date, the following grants have been awarded:
Grantee | Institute of origin | Receiving Institute | Topic | Length of visit / planned starting date |
Ms. Julia Delingat | Institut für Vogelforschung | Zoological Institute | Migration system and separation of different populations of Northern Wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe) by means of DNA analysis, morphometric data and stable isotopes | 6 weeks 15/08/00 |
Dr. Volker Salewski | Institut für Vogelforschung | University of Edinburgh Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology Edinburgh (UK) | Ecology of Palaearctic migrants in elephant disturbed habitats in Zimbabwe | 6 weeks 15/10/00 |
Dr. Sophie Lumineau | CNRS - Université de Rennes Ethologie, Evolution, Ecologie | Roslin Institute | Expression of the immediate early gene c-fos in the brain related to migratory processes in the European quail | 3 months 15/01/01 |
Ms. Ingrid Tulp | Alterra | Institute of Ecology and Evolution Bird Ringing Centre | Repercussions of timing and arrival condition on the breeding success of Arctic breeding shorebirds | 10 weeks 01/06/01 |
Ms. Julia Delingat | Institut für Vogelforschung | Icelandic Museum of Natural History Gibraltar Natural History Field Centre Gibraltar Lund University Dept of Animal Ecology Lund (SE) | Optimal migration in the migratory system of Northern Wheatears Oenanthe oenanthe | 5 visits totalling 9 months 01/06/01 |
Mr. Pavel Zehtindjiev | Institute of Zoology Sofia (BG) | Swiss Ornithological Institute Sempach (CH) | The role of the Balkan region in the Palearctic-african migration system: a quantitative estimate of the spatial and temporal distribution of nocturnal bird migration | 3 weeks 05/07/01 |
Mr. Casper Kraan | Groningen (NL) | Lund University | The effect of long migratory flights on immuno- competence in Knots (Calidris canutus islandica) | 2 months 01/09/01 |
Dr. Chiara Marchetti | Netherlands Institute of Ecology | Max-Planck Institute for Ornithology | Individual coping styles and migratory activity: is there a link? Analysis of neophobia- exploration behaviour of Blackcaps (Sylvia communis) selected for high and low migratory activity, a pilot study | 1 month 15/05/02 |
Mr. Peter Pap | Babes Bolyai University | Université Pierre et Marie Curie | Health status, phenotypic quality and arrival on the breeding grounds: reproductive consequences in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) | 2 months 01/02/02 |
Dr. Volker Salewski | Vogelforschung | Swiss Ornithological Institute pilot study, Mauritania | Pilot study to investigate bird migration across the Sahara | Travel only 31/08/01 |
Mr. Kasper Thorup | University of Copenhagen | Lund University | The orientation programme in birds: analysis using satellite telemetry data | 50 days 01/11/01 |
Dr. Gediminas Valkiunas | Institute of Ecology | Institut für Vogelforschung | Influence of blood haemosporidian parasites on migrating songbirds: current state of the research and future perspectives | 2 weeks 31/01/02 |
Ms. Sandra van der Graaf | RUG Biological Centre | Bird Ringing Centre | Herbivore facilitation in salt-marsh ecosystems: from temperate to arctic | 1 month 10/04/02 |
Ms. Julia Delingat | Institut für Vogelforschung | Icelandic Museum of Natural History | Optimal migration in the migratory system of Northern Wheatears Oenanthe oenanthe | 1 month 07/08/02 |
Dr Tatjana Jezova | Vilnius University | Institut für Vogelforschung | Avian malaria in captive and wild Blackcaps (Silvia atricapilla) and Garden Warblers (S. borin): occurrence and experimental evaluation (a pilot study) | 6 weeks 16/06/02 |
Mr. Fabrice Helfenstein | Université Pierre et Marie Curie | Konrad Lorenz Institut für Vergleichende Verhaltens- forschung | Arrival date and its consequence on the life history traits and sexual selection processes in the Kittiwake | 2 months 04/08/02 |
Dr. Lorenzo Serra | Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica | Institut für Vogelforschung | Investigating the effect of primary moult induction on pre-breeding migration in the Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola | 8 visits, 85 days 01/11/02 |
