DBE - 'no alarms and no surprises'

Ewa Wegrzyn, Ph.D.
Visiting postdoc (2007-10)

Short CV
2007- Postdoc: Department of Behavioural Ecology Adam Mickiewicz University
Ph.D. in biology 2006 - Wroclaw University (supervisor Marta Borowiec)
M.Sc. in biology 1997 - University of Marie Curie-Sklodowska

Research interest
Acoustic and visual communication in birds, coding and transmission of the information in a bird song, nestling – parent communication.
Species: Acrocephalus sp., Parus sp., Emberisa sp., Dendrocopus sp.

Current projects
Strategies of begging in nests under different risk of predation (supported by the grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education no. D060/POL/2007.

Quality matters – do female prefer males of better syllable performance?

Past projects
1) Individual differences in a song of Great Reed Warbler and its communication functions.

Teaching and faculty service:
Lectures in: Ornithology, Animal behaviour, Birds communication
Labs: Zoology of Invertebrates, Zoology of Vertebrates

Publications:

Wegrzyn E., Jost E., 2004. Remarks on the effect of brood parasitism of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus on breeding season of the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus. Ecol. Quest. 5/2004 145-149.

Jost E., Wegrzyn E., 2004. Observations of brood parasitism of common cuckoo Cuculus canorus in nests of the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus – vocal behaviour and interactions of the host and the parasite. Ecol. Quest. 5/2004 151-156.