Research articles, reviews and preprints
Preprints and in Press
2025
Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant
status: under review in a journal
2023
Birds are easier to trick: an effect of magnetic field manipulation on migratory orientation of Nathusius’ pipistrelle in the circular release box
status: postponed
Orientation tests and long-term movement phenology establish the red admiral Vanessa atalanta as an applicable model for navigation research in migratory butterflies
status: under review in a journal
Migratory birds are able to choose the appropriate migratory direction under dim yellow monochromatic light
status: published in Proceedings of Royal Society B
Published
2023
Migratory birds are able to choose the appropriate migratory direction under dim yellow narrowband light
Early version/preprint: see here https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.13.523666v2
2022
Access to the sky near the horizon and stars does not play a crucial role in compass calibration of European songbird migrants.
2020
A hierarchy of compass systems in migratory birds
P.S. Our experimental setup for virtual magnetic displacements and compass calibration experiments is on the cover of this issue.
ColLab
2025
Magnetic orientation of marsh warblers (Acrocephalus palustris) and spotted flycatchers (Muscicapa striata) after simulated crossing of the magnetic equator
Read more – Journal of Experimental Biology
2023
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific
Read more – Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Oscillating magnetic field does not disrupt orientation in the presence of stellar cues in an avian migrant
Read more – Journal of Ornithology,
2021
Ontogeny of the star compass in birds: pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) can establish the star compass in spring
Read more – Journal of Experimental Biology
2020
No evidence for the use of magnetic declination for migratory navigation in two songbird species
Read more – PLOS ONE
Magnetic compass of garden warblers is not affected by oscillating magnetic fields applied to their eyes
Read more – Scientific Reports
2018
Magnetic map navigation requires input from the trigeminal nerve in a migratory songbird
Read more – Scientific Reports
2017
Migratory Eurasian reed warblers can use magnetic declination to solve the longitude problem
Read more – Current Biology
Very weak oscillating magnetic field disrupts the magnetic compass of songbird migrants
Read more – Journal of Royal Society Interface
Further evidence of a time-independent stellar compass in a night-migrating songbird
Read more – Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
2014
Early evening activity of migratory Garden Warbler Sylvia borin: compass calibration activity?
Read more – Journal of Ornithology
Magnetic orientation of garden warblers (Sylvia borin) under 1.4 MHz radiofrequency magnetic field
Read more – Journal of Royal Society Interface
Media about our and collaboration studies
Declination article, Current Biology 2017
Forbes (English)
PhysOrg (English)
Times (English)
The Conversation (English)
Other media
Trigeminal nerve and magnetic map (Russian)
Parallel Worlds (Russian)
How birds learn to use the stars to find their way home (Russian)
Navigation of juvenile songbird migrants (Russian)
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