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

2013/09/B/NZ8/03321

Keywords

Descriptors

  • NZ8_12: Zoologia
  • NZ8_2: Ekologia
  • NZ8_3: Etologia

Panel

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

Host institution

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution »

Principal investigator (from the host institution)

dr hab. Piotr Henryk 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
2014-07-18
Project end date
2019-07-17
Project duration
60 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Kamera cyfrowa wideo typu kamkorder (2 pcs). Cost: 10 000 PLN
  2. Komputer przenośny. Cost: 6 000 PLN
  3. Przenośny magnetofon stereo z akcesoriami. Cost: 5 000 PLN
  4. Radar rewolwerowy z akcesoriami i oprogramowaniem. Cost: 20 000 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 (year: 2020, volume: 55, pages: 175-186), Publisher: 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
    Status:
    Accepted for publication

« New search

Graphic design and implementation: Jakub Piotrowski