Dmitry Kishkinev
@dmitrykishkinev.bsky.social
Lecturer in Animal Behaviour and Behavioural Neuroscience at Keele University, UK. Research topics: animal orientation and navigation, magnetoreception, bird, insect & turtle migration, movement ecology, biotelemetry, computer vision to quantify behaviour.
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🕊️ How do birds know when to migrate?
Our new Biology Open paper shows that spring migration timing in great reed warblers has a genetic component—linked to fat metabolism genes suggesting that birds that fuel up faster may be ready to leave Africa sooner. More journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
Our new Biology Open paper shows that spring migration timing in great reed warblers has a genetic component—linked to fat metabolism genes suggesting that birds that fuel up faster may be ready to leave Africa sooner. More journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
Reposted by Dmitry Kishkinev
Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧
🕊️ How do birds know when to migrate?
Our new Biology Open paper shows that spring migration timing in great reed warblers has a genetic component—linked to fat metabolism genes suggesting that birds that fuel up faster may be ready to leave Africa sooner. More journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
Our new Biology Open paper shows that spring migration timing in great reed warblers has a genetic component—linked to fat metabolism genes suggesting that birds that fuel up faster may be ready to leave Africa sooner. More journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
October 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🕊️ How do birds know when to migrate?
Our new Biology Open paper shows that spring migration timing in great reed warblers has a genetic component—linked to fat metabolism genes suggesting that birds that fuel up faster may be ready to leave Africa sooner. More journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
Our new Biology Open paper shows that spring migration timing in great reed warblers has a genetic component—linked to fat metabolism genes suggesting that birds that fuel up faster may be ready to leave Africa sooner. More journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
An international course for postgraduate students
Nov 2025 will run again in Lund University. Will cover theoretical and practical aspects of animal migration research, locomotion, orientation and navigation, tracking and ecophysiology www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...
Nov 2025 will run again in Lund University. Will cover theoretical and practical aspects of animal migration research, locomotion, orientation and navigation, tracking and ecophysiology www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...
Ecology of Animal Migration
Lund University.
www.biology.lu.se
June 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
An international course for postgraduate students
Nov 2025 will run again in Lund University. Will cover theoretical and practical aspects of animal migration research, locomotion, orientation and navigation, tracking and ecophysiology www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...
Nov 2025 will run again in Lund University. Will cover theoretical and practical aspects of animal migration research, locomotion, orientation and navigation, tracking and ecophysiology www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...
A study published in Nature showing that Australian Bogong moths possess a star compass based on Milky Way doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night - Nature
Every spring, Bogong moths use the starry night sky as a compass to navigate up to 1,000 km towards their alpine migratory goal.
doi.org
June 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A study published in Nature showing that Australian Bogong moths possess a star compass based on Milky Way doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Our recent exciting results about Red Admirals' compasses - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Not All Butterflies Are Monarchs: Compass Systems in the Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), a European Diurnal Migrant
Seasonal migration in animals is a widespread and complex phenomenon, yet the mechanisms underlying orientation and navigation remain poorly understood in many taxa. While significant progress has bee...
www.biorxiv.org
May 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Our recent exciting results about Red Admirals' compasses - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Dmitry Kishkinev
Out in @animalecology.bsky.social and open access, this beauty showing that older common terns navigate more efficiently than younger ones and that efficient navigation leads to a reduced migration duration and earlier arrival at the breeding and wintering grounds: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
January 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Out in @animalecology.bsky.social and open access, this beauty showing that older common terns navigate more efficiently than younger ones and that efficient navigation leads to a reduced migration duration and earlier arrival at the breeding and wintering grounds: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Reposted by Dmitry Kishkinev
Now this is exciting.
Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
March 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Now this is exciting.
Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Happy to join BlueSky - follow me who followed my personal and/or Anim_Navigation X/Twitter account!
December 4, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Happy to join BlueSky - follow me who followed my personal and/or Anim_Navigation X/Twitter account!