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Fast or manoeuvrable? Female preferences and male flight performance in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)

2013/09/B/NZ8/03321

Keywords:

birds flight performance migration sexual selection

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_12: Zoology
  • NZ8_2: Ecology
  • NZ8_3: Animal behaviour

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Piotr Matyjasiak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: OPUS 5 - announced on 2013-03-15

Amount awarded: 351 440 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2014-07-18

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2019-07-17

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Radar rewolwerowy z akcesoriami i oprogramowaniem (20 000 PLN)
  2. Kamera cyfrowa wideo typu kamkorder (2 szt.) (10 000 PLN)
  3. Przenośny magnetofon stereo z akcesoriami (5 000 PLN)
  4. Komputer przenośny (6 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (2)
  1. Flight performance of migrating juvenile Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica in relation to fat load and wing morphology
    Authors:
    Matyjasiak P., Bazzi G., Rubolini D.
    Academic press:
    Acta Ornithologica (rok: 2020, tom: 55, strony: 175-186), Wydawca: MiIZ PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3161/00016454AO2020.55.2.004 - link to the publication
  2. Wing morphology covaries with migration distance in a highly aerial insectivorous songbird
    Authors:
    Piotr MATYJASIAK, Cosme LÓPEZ-CALDERÓN, Roberto AMBROSINI, Javier BALBONTÍN, Alessandra COSTANZO, Yosef KIAT, Andrea ROMANO, Diego RUBOLINI
    Academic press:
    Current Zoology (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: Oxford Univ. Press
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
    DOI:
    10.1093/cz/zoac044 - link to the publication