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Course code: BBS10153f11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: General ornithology
Major: Biology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Grzegorz Kopij
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student learns about morphology, ecophysiology, migration, behaviour and acoustics of birds; he/she will be able to identify most species of the local avifauna; to record and to analyse avian calls and songs (sonograms); to identify and describe nest construction and its localization, and egg shapes and their colour patterns.
Competences: After having completed this course students can work as ornithologists, nature conservationists or biological teachers; they can collaborate with research institutions in Poland and abroad (atlasing, monitoring, nest cards, ringing); this course can also help to organize scientific societies.
Prerequisites: avian ecology, vertebrate zoology, general zoology
Course content: Ornithology as science; morpho-anatomical adaptations; speciation; migration, breeding biology; acoustics; behaviour.
Recommended literature: Cramp S (ed) 1975-1995. The Birds of Western Palearctic. Tom 1-9. Oxford; Elphic J. 2007. Atlas wêdrówek ptaków. Warszawa; Gosler A. 1994. Atlas Ptaków Świata. Warszawa: Multico. Lohmann M. 2005. Obserwujemy ptaki. Warszawa; Mayer E. 1974. Populacje, gatunki i ewolucja. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna. Sokołowski J. 1972. Ptaki Ziem Polskich. Tom 1-2; Siwek W. et al. 2000. Ptaki Europy. Warszawa; Czasopisma: Acta Ornithologica, Notatki Ornitologiczne, Ptaki, Journal of Ornithology, Auk, Ibis.
Assessment methods: Oral test; minimum 60% of knowledge to pass.
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