On October 19-20, the III autumn school "Animal Orientation and Navigation" was held at the Zvenigorod Biological Station of Moscow State University
"The school's purpose is to introduce students, postgraduates and young scientists to the current state of research on animal orientation and navigation, including the most discussed ones — orientation by the Earth's magnetic field and neurophysiological mechanisms of spatial behavior. Another important task of the school is to attract young specialists to conduct research in promising areas. Leading scientists and young specialists have been invited as lecturers."
On of the invited was Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Natalia Lebedeva, MMBI Ornithology and Parasitology Laboratory principal researcher with a lecture on “GPS-GSM-transmitters in the study of bird migration”. During it, GPS-GSM transmitters were demonstrated to the students, the mechanism of their operation was considered, the range of data that can be obtained as a result of tagging birds with them. Examples of tagging birds with GPS-GSM transmitters were shown and an opportunity was provided to evaluate data on moving birds in real time. Natalia Viktorovna also spoke about the project of tagging birds with ICARUS satellite transmitters, about the prospects and problems of their use for studying bird migrations, demonstrated ways to build maps of bird movement during migrations and daily migrations and the results of studying various aspects of bird ecology during seasonal migrations using this equipment.
At the end of the "School", the participants expressed great gratitude to the organizer and lecturers for the high level of events and the knowledge gained.
The lecture on “GPS-GSM-transmitters in the study of bird migration” was given by Dr. Natalia Lebedeva, Professor, Chief Researcher of the Laboratory of Ornithology and Parasitology, IMBI. At the lesson GPS-GSM transmitters were demonstrated to the school students, the mechanism of their work and the range of data that can be obtained as a result of tagging birds with them were considered. Examples of tagging birds with GPS-GSM transmitters were shown and an opportunity was given to evaluate data on moving birds in real time. Natalia also told about the project of bird tagging with ICARUS satellite transmitters, about the prospects and problems of their application for studying bird migrations, demonstrated the methods of building maps of bird movements during migrations and daily migrations and the results of studying various aspects of bird ecology during seasonal migrations with the help of this equipment.
At the end of the “School” the participants expressed their gratitude to the organizers and lecturers for the high level of organization and the knowledge gained.
