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White Stork - an integrative study on population dynamics

On going project: White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a species good known to general public, and in Central European countries is a popular "sign of the spring". Moreover, exists good, sometimes also old data on arrival time of the White Storks to breeding ground over Europe. Therefore, we suggest how to use general public to collect high quality phenological data, and based on their data combine with data on population size and ecological parameters we modelled white stork population variability over space and time.

Team: A. Mickiewicz Univ.: Piotr Tryjanowski (head of the project), J. Kosicki, P. Zduniak; other persons from Poland: S. Kuzniak, P.T. Dolata, I. Andrzejewska, A. Wuczynski, P. Profus, Z. Jakubiec, L. Jerzak, J. Radkiewicz; Slovakia - M. Fulin, Norway - B.E. Seather, UK - T.H. Sparks

Relevant publications

Tryjanowski, P. , Kuzniak, S., Sparks, T. 2002. Earlier arrival of some farmland migrants in western Poland. Ibis 144: 62-68.

Tryjanowski P., Kuzniak S. 2002. Size and productivity of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia population in relation to Common Vole Microtus arvalis density. Ardea 90: 213-217.

Ptaszyk J., Kosicki J., Sparks T.H., Tryjanowski P. 2003. Changes in the arrival pattern of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia in western Poland. J. Ornithol. 144: 323-329.

Profus P., Tryjanowski P., Tworek S., Zduniak P. 2004. Intrapopulation variation of egg size in the White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) in Southern Poland. Pol. J. Ecol. 52: 75-78.

Andrzejewska I, Tryjanowski P, Zduniak P, Dolata PT, Ptaszyk J, Cwiertnia P. 2004. Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in the white stork Ciconia ciconia. Berl. Münch. Tierärztl. Wschr. 117: 274-275.

Kosicki J, Sparks T, Tryjanowski P. 2004. Does arrival date influence autumn departure of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia. Ornis Fennica 81: 91-95.

Andrzejewska I., Dolata P.T., Jerzak L., Ptaszyk J., Tryjanowski P., Zduniak P. 2004. Prevalence of agglutinating antibodies against Listeria monocytogenes in chicks of the white storks (Ciconia ciconia Linnaeus, 1758) in Poland. Eur. J. Wild. Res. 50: 218-220.

Sparks T.H., Tryjanowski P. (In press) The detection of climate impacts: some methodological considerations. Int. J. Climatol.

Tryjanowski P, Sparks T, Profus P. (In press). Uphill shifts in the distribution of the white stork Ciconia ciconia in southern Poland: the importance of nest quality. Diversity & Distributions.