Department of Ornithology

Programs of fundamental researches

in the framework of Department of General Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences

• Taxonomy, fauna and zoogeography of some avian groups.
• Taxonomy and phylogeny of fossil birds (late cretaceous, palaeogene, and quaternary).
• Identification tables and the revision of some bird’s groups.
• Making up a catalogue of nomenclature types in the collection of Ornithological Department, Zoological Institute.
• Birds of urban territories by the example of birds in Saint-Petersburg.
• Estimation of structure and dynamics of biodiversity of the Eurasian birds.

Projects supported by the Russian Fund of Fundamental Research

• Comparative demographic analysis of sex-specific mortality in animals and humans.
• The use of demographic and morphometric parameters for the prognosis of trends in animal populations (by the example of birds).