We are a group of researchers and students from Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, located in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. We generally examine the prey-predator interactions uncovering the process of recognition and categorization of such categories.
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Acoustical communication in birds - available thesis topic
Acoustical communication in birds (PDF) Are you interested in bird acoustical communication? Would you like to combine both work in field and at your computer desk? Don’t hesitate and do bioacoustics! Bachelor / Master thesis Individuality among birds, territorial behaviour, … Continue reading
Life strategy of arctic tern - available thesis topic
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Research of bird foraging behaviour - available thesis topic
Research of bird foraging behaviour (PDF) Do you like green biology, but you don’t want to spend the whole summer in field? Do you prefer to work ‘inside’, but you still want to work with ‘live’ material? Do you like … Continue reading
Red-backed shrike - antipredatory strategy, personality, and cognitive abilities - available thesis topic
Red-backed shrike – antipredatory strategy, personality, and cognitive abilities (PDF) Do you like ethology? Do you want to experience the beauties (and sometimes sorrows) of field experiments? Come and join us in research of red-backed shrikes (Lanius collurio). Bachelor / … Continue reading
Ecology of birds living in human settlements and agricultural landscape - available thesis topic
Ecology of birds living in human settlements and agricultural landscape (PDF) Bachelor / Master thesis Work in field as well as in a lab, or just evaluation of already existing data Learning useful modern methods which are applicable in practice … Continue reading
Antipredatory behaviour of corvids - available thesis topic
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Physiological response to fear - available thesis topic
Physiological response of birds to fear (PDF) Bachelor / Master thesis Literary review Study of chosen physiological parametres during cage experiments with great tits (Parus major) If interested, contact Jája Beránková via her email jaja.berankova@gmail.com Other available thesis topics: Antipredatory … Continue reading
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Miroslav Bažant
Personal data:
Name: Mgr. Miroslav Bažant
Born: 1986, Třebíč
Contact:
Email: bazami@post.cz
Office: Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
Specialization:
Education:
- Privat Secondary Grammar School Tábor
- Bachelor studies – programme Biology; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science
- Master studies – programme Zoology; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science
- PhD studies (in progress) – programme Zoology; University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science
Theses:
Bažant M (2012)
The analysis of variance egg volume of Common pochard (Aythya ferina) and Tufted ducks (Aythya fuligula)
M.Sc. thesis (PDF)
Bažant M (2009)
How birds judge the risk of predation during winter nourishment experiments – meaning of the movement of the model
B.Sc. thesis (PDF)
Conferences:
Oral presentations:
- Third Pan-European Duck Symposium (PEDS3)- Jindřichův Hradec, 24.-28. 4. 2012 – Analysis of egg volumevarianceof common pochard (Aythya ferina) and Tufted duck (Aythya fuligula) (conference proceedings page 52)
- Ornitologická konference České společnosti ornitologické – Mikulov, 7. – 9. 10. 2011 – Faktory ovlivňující objem vajec u poláka velkého (Aythya ferina) a poláka chocholačky (Aythya fuligula) – přednáška (sborník abstraktů str. 32)
Posters:
- Ornitologická konference České společnosti ornitologické – Mikulov, 14.-16. 10. 2016 – Každý pták se počítá, ale některý i dvakrát aneb úskalí při odhadech velikostí hnízdních populací příklad z výzkumu pěnice vlašské – přednáška. Výskyt pěnice vlašské (Sylvia nisoria) na jižním Znojemsku – meziroční srovnání početnosti a překryvu míst výskytu, porovnání výskytu v mozaikových a liniových habitatech – poster.
- Zoologické dny 2016 – České Budějovice, 11.-12. 2. 2016 – Hnízdní ekologie pěnice vlašské – vztah velikosti samic, vajec a mláďat – přednáška. Výskyt pěnice vlašské (Sylvia nisoria) na jižním Znojemsku – meziroční srovnání početnosti a překryvu míst výskytu, porovnání výskytu v mozaikových a liniových habitatech – poster (sborník abstraktů str. 27-29)
- 42. etologická konference, Česká a Slovenská etologická společnost, 4.-7. 11. 2015 – Jak se liši hnizdni populace pěnice vlašské (Sylvia nisoria) na okraji a uvnitř druhoveho arealu? – poster (sborník abstraktů str. 48)
- 10th Conference of the European Ornithologist´s Union – Badajoz, Spain, 24.-28. 8. 2015 – Which Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria nisoria males are more successful during nesting? – poster (conference proceedings page 201)
- Zoologické dny 2013 – Brno, 7.-8. 2. 2013 – Hnízdní ekologie pěnice vlašské (Sylvia nisoria) – výzkum ve fragmentované krajině za využití molekulárních metod – poster (sborník abstraktů str. 30)
- Zoologické dny 2010- Praha, 11.-12. 2. 2010 – Hnízdní parazitizmus poláka velkého a p. chocholačky – vybrané parametry parazitických vajec a mláďat a jejich srovnání – poster (sborník abstraktů str. 31)
- Zoologické dny 2009 – Brno, 12.-13. 2. 2009 – Jak ptáci hodnotí riziko predace v zimních potravních experimentech – význam pohybu atrapy – poster (sborník abstraktů str. 29)
- Fourth European Conference on Behavioural Biology – special focus: interspecific interactions – Dijon, France, 18.-20. 7. 2008 – Credibility of predators in field antipredator experiments: Are birds more afraid of mobile models? – poster (conference proceedings page 215)
Foreign stays:
2015: Poland – Maria Curie Sklodowska University
Other trivia:
A member of Czech Society for Ornithology